From the Ruins of Enlightenment: Beethoven and Schubert in Their Solitude

by Richard Kramer

Richard Kramer follows the work of Beethoven and Schubert from 1815 through to the final months of their lives, when each were increasingly absorbed in iconic projects that would soon enough inspire notions of "late style."

Here is Vienna, hosting a Congress in 1815 that would redraw national boundaries and reconfigure the European community for a full century. A snapshot captures two of its citizens, each seemingly oblivious of this...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226821633
• ISBN13: 9780226821634
• Release Date: October 2022
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.1"