This study of Franz Schubert's settings of poetry by Friedrich Schlegel and Novalis introduces the fascinating world of early German Romanticism in the 1790s. Schubert's encounters with early Romantic poetry some twenty years later reanimated some of the movement's central ideas. Through exploration of Frÿhromantik ideas, along with their musical representations by Schubert, this book opens an intriguing world of thought. At the same time, Feurzeig explores some of Schubert's little-known songs, which range from quirky to charming to exquisite.
'...Feuerzeig's Schubert's Lieder and the Philosophy of Early Romanticism takes the more traditional path as a narrowly focused interpretation of a few works, while nevertheless implicitly making a bold assertion: that Schubert's Lieder not only contain ideas, but substantial concepts grounded in philosophical issues...Feuerzeig asks, "What happens if we think what Schubert is thinking?" (xv). This simple question invites us to do a number of very complex things, all of which Feuerzeig enacts in her wide-ranging inquiry.' - James H. Donelan, European Romantic Review, 27:4







