Schubert's String Quartets

Franz Schubert''s music has long been celebrated for its lyrical melodies, ''heavenly length'' and daring harmonic language. In this new study of Schubert''s complete string quartets, Anne Hyland challenges the influential but under-explored claim that Schubert could not successfully incorporate the lyric style into his sonatas, and offers a novel perspective on lyric form that embraces historical...