The New Grove Schubert

by Maurice J.E. Brown

The most remarkable composer of song literature in the history of Western music, Franz Schubert sometimes gets overlooked in favor of his more bombastic contemporaries. 1997 marks the bicentennial of his birth; record companies and concert programmers, who love such pegs, have accordingly scheduled loads of Schubert for the year. You can find some useful insights into the composer and his work with this biography, a slightly expanded version of the essay written for the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. Also helpful is the detailed chronicle of his music, arranged by type and date of composition.

Genres: Biography, Nonfiction

196 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1958

About the author

Maurice John Edwin Brown (3 August 1906 – 27 August 1975) was a British musicologist and a noted authority on Franz Schubert.

Brown's book Schubert: A Critical Biography (1958) became the standard work on the composer for many years, establishing him as an international authority.