[13] See Musical Examples (Vol. XIII).
[14] See Musical Examples (Vol. XIII).
[15] See Vol. II, Chapter VI.
[16] Cf. Vol. II, Chapter X.
[17] See Musical Examples (Vol. XIII).
[18] See Musical Examples (Vol. XIII).
[19] See Musical Examples (Vol. XIII).
CHAPTER VIII
FRANZ SCHUBERT
Art-song and the romantic spirit—Precursors of Schubert—Schubert’s contribution to song; Schubert’s poets—Classification of Schubert’s songs—Faults and virtues—The songs in detail; the cycles—Schubert’s contemporaries.
If the art-song begins with Franz Schubert there are two reasons for it. The first is the comparatively accidental one that Schubert was the greatest of lyric geniuses—the song writer par excellence. The second is that just as he arrived upon the scene the romantic element in music began to gain the upper hand.