SCHUBERT: 600 LIEDER, Olimpio Cescatti

SCHUBERT: 600 LIEDER, Olimpio Cescatti

Schubert's Lieder are part of a cultural context that has not only been a testing ground for singers and pianists for almost 200 years, but also represents a true poetic anthology of 18th and 19th-century production. Germans have made it a monument of their culture, and musicology considers it one of the cornerstones of its studies. However, to define this volume as "just" a tool for lovers of Romances for voice and piano is rather limiting. It is also, and above all, an organic collection of German and European poetry by some of the greatest authors: Goethe, Schiller, Schlegel, Schober, but also, and perhaps most importantly, by lesser-known names such as Pichler, Collin, Reissig. And then again Aeschylus, Anacreon; and Metastasio, Goldoni, Petrarch, who contribute, in their original Italian versions, to form the corpus of 600 Lieder, presented here in its entirety, with original text on the facing page, edited by one of our most recognized translators and scholars of German poetry: Olimpio Cescatti.

With illustrations by Gianmario Masala http://gianmariomasala.com/

approx. 600 pp.

Size: 17 x 24

Matte laminated cover with flap