Schubert's Piano

Matthew Gardner holds an Akademie der Wissenschaften Junior Professorship in Musicology at the University of Tübingen in association with the Neue Schubert-Ausgabe (NSA). His research interests include music in eighteenth-century Britain, on which he has published widely, as well as performance practices, source studies and critical editing. Christine Martin is a Research Associate in the editorial office of the Neue Schubert-Ausgabe (NSA) at the University of Tübingen. She is a member of the edition's Editorial Board and a consultant for the online portal Schubert Digital (in development). Her publications include several critical editions for the NSA, alongside numerous research articles.

List of figures; List of tables; List of music examples; Notes on contributors; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations and conventions; Introduction Matthew Gardner and Christine Martin; Part I. The Piano In Schubert's World: 1. Franz Schubert as a pianist Andrea Lindmayr-Brandl; 2. Between society and solitude: Schubert's improvisations Lorraine Byrne Bodley; 3. The piano in Schubert's lied texts Andreas Dorschel; 4. Schubert's four-hand piano music Thomas Christensen; Part II. Instruments and Performance: 5. Schubert and the Viennese piano Matthew Gardner; 6. Performing simultaneous triplets and dotted rhythms in Schubert's piano music David Rowland; 7. Viennese pianoforte treatises as reflection of Schubert's pianistic audience Mario Aschauer; Part III. Sound and Musical Imagery: 8. Schubert as balladeer Laura Tunbridge; 9. The piano and musical imagery in Schubert's lieder Marjorie Hirsch; 10. Franz Schubert, death, and the gothic Joe Davies; 11. Una corda: Beethoven's and Schubert's exploration of the piano's sonority as a structural resource Hans-Joachim Hinrichsen; Part IV. Understanding Schubert's Writing for the Piano: 12. Schubert and the style brillant: variation and figuration in Schubert's concertante chamber music with piano Christine Martin; 13. Rethinking development and variation in Schubert՚s last piano sonatas: what do the drafts and final versions reveal? Anne M. Hyland; 14. Reflections and echoes in Schubert's waltzes James William Sobaskie; 15. 'Schubert would have no objection if he knew about it': Franz Liszt's reception of Schubert's music Andrea Wiesli; Select bibliography; Index.