Art Pursuits Short Course

FRANZ SCHUBERT:
"the most poetic of composers"
London

with Richard Wigmore

Wednesdays, 12, 19 and 26 November 2008

Dubbed by Liszt "the most poetic of composers", Franz Schubert was both the heir to the great Viennese classical tradition of Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven and the quintessential composer of early Romanticism. In this lecture series Richard Wigmore explores his music, familiar and unfamiliar, from the precocious works of his teens to the visionary masterpieces of his last months. En route he considers the sentimentalising myths and half-truths that have attached themselves to the composer since his death at the age of 31: of Schubert the naïve, divinely inspired vessel; Schubert the tragically misunderstood; or Schubert the feckless bohemian, blithely scribbling down melodies on the back of the nearest available menu.

The maximum number of students is 30.

About Richard Wigmore

Richard Wigmore is a music writer, broadcaster and lecturer, specialising in the Baroque and Classical periods, and in Lieder. He contributes regularly to the Daily Telegraph, BBC Music Magazine and Gramophone, broadcasts frequently on BBC Radio 3 and gives classes at the Trinity College of Music and at Birkbeck College. He has also led many tours for Martin Randall Travel (including the Schubertiade and the Salzburg summer and winter festivals) and Habsburg Heritage. Richard has published Schubert: the complete song texts (Gollancz) and is currently writing a study of Haydn's life and works for Faber.

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