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Schubert

A Musical Wayfarer

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Schubert

By: Lorraine Byrne Bodley
Narrated by: Christa Lewis
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An insightful biography of the great composer, revealing Schubert's complex and fascinating private life alongside his musical genius

Brilliant, short-lived, incredibly prolific—Schubert is one of the most intriguing figures in music history. While his music attracts a wide audience, much of his private life remains shrouded in mystery, and significant portions of his work have been overlooked.

In this major new biography, Lorraine Byrne Bodley takes a detailed look into Schubert's life, from his early years at the Stadtkonvikt to the harrowing battle with syphilis that led to his death at the age of thirty-one. Drawing on extensive archival research in Vienna and the Czech Republic, and reconsidering the meaning of some of his best-known works, Bodley provides a fuller account than ever before of Schubert's extraordinary achievement and incredible courage. This is a compelling new portrait of one of the most beloved composers of the nineteenth century.

©2023 Lorraine Byrne Bodley (P)2023 Tantor Biographies & Memoirs Entertainment & Celebrities History & Criticism Music Celebrity Opera Entertainment

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This is a highly detailed biography of Schubert. The scholarship is masterful. The narrator has a pleasant little voice but her attempts at German and any other accent is so painful I lose the continuity as I struggle to figure out who is Shoebut? Or Shuput? Or Sayeri? This is a common problem with numerous otherwise successful audiobooks here on audible. Although some books have been rendered absolutely unlistenable because of this issue, like The Romanovs by Montefiore. I wish the narrator would just pronounce foreign names and words clearly without attempting to pretend they know these languages. Shoebut! I pity the authors who have their work butchered because of this failing.

Brilliant biography

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