Schubert

This volume, first published in English in 1958 by A.&C. Black, brings together a mass of contemporary accounts of memoirs of Schubert by a wide variety of friends and acquaintances. It is here reprinted, with a new Foreword by Walther Durr, Director of the International Schubert Society and Chief Editor of the New Schubert Edition. The volume includes obituary notices, biographical material of various kinds, personal records and memoirs, and correspondence on Schubert's posthumous works. A glossary, an index of works, and several illustrations are included. This book is intended for anyone interested in the eye-witness and posthumous accounts of the composer Franz Schubert (1797-1838) by his friends and contemporaries.