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This review is from: Franz Schubert: Music and Belief (Paperback)
Anyone who knows enough about Schubert to look at this review knows the composer was not a conventionally religious person -- which is hardly the same as saying Schubert's struggles with the human spirit had nothing to do with his artistic creations. Leo Black, the longtime BBC chief producer for music, draws on a lifetime of intimacy with Schubert's compositions to deliver a point of view probably only he could provide. Offering neither a narrow, dusty study of Schubert's "sacred" music nor a bland, comprehensive summary of Schubert's entire musical output, Black instead shows how the genuinely spiritual elements in Schubert's music appear and reappear and inform even many of his "secular" masterpieces. Black's individual insights are far too many to mention, but among them, I must thank him for encouraging me to hear and learn Schubert's marvelous "Gesang der Geister uber den Wassern" (D. 714) and for recommending the lieder recordings of German baritone Siegfried Lorenz. I can't imagine anyone who already appreciates Schubert not appreciating this book and, thus, appreciating Schubert even more.
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Franz Schubert: Music and Belief by Leo Black (Hardcover - December 4, 2003)
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