Schuberts Fingerprints: Studies in the Instrumental Works

As Robert Schumann put it, Only few works are as clearly stamped with their authors imprint as his. This book explores Schuberts stylistic traits in a series of chapters each discussing an individual fingerprint with case-studies drawn principally from the piano and chamber music. Schubert emerges as someone exerting intellectual control over his musical material and imbuing it with poetic resonance.