Select Bibliography
*Updated June 2025
A select list of Schubert publications -- spanning a range of topics and approaches.
Biographies
Lorraine Byrne Bodley, Schubert: A Musical Wayfarer (New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 2023).
Christopher Gibbs, The Life of Schubert (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000).
Brian Newbould, Schubert: The Music and the Man (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1997).
Elizabeth N. McKay, Franz Schubert: A Biography (Oxford: Oxford University
Press, 1996).
John Reed, Schubert: The Final Years (London: Faber & Faber, 1972).
Maurice J. Brown, Schubert: A Critical Biography (London: Macmillan and Co., 1958).
Compendia
Matthew Gardner and Christine Martin (eds), Schubert's Piano (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024).
Andrea Lindmayr-Brandl, Birgit Lodes, Melanie Unseld (eds), Women's Agency in Schubert's Vienna (Vienna: Austrian Academy of Sciences Press, 2024).
Joe Davies and James William Sobaskie (eds), Drama in the Music of Franz Schubert (Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, 2019).
Lorraine Byrne Bodley and Julian Horton (eds), Rethinking Schubert (New York: Oxford University Press, 2016).
Lorraine Byrne Bodley and Julian Horton (eds), Schubert’s Late Music: History, Theory, Style (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016).
Christopher Gibbs and Morten Solvik (eds), Franz Schubert and His World (Princeton: Princeton University Press 2014).
Barbara Reul and Lorraine Byrne Bodley (eds), The Unknown Schubert (Farnham: Ashgate, 2008).
Lorraine Byrne Bodley and James William Sobaskie (eds), 'Schubert Familiar and Unfamiliar: Continuing Conversations’, special issue, Nineteenth-Century Music Review 13/1 (2016).
Brian Newbould (ed.), Schubert the Progressive: History, Performance Practice, Analysis (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2003).
Brian Newbould (ed.), Schubert Studies (Aldershot: Ashgate, 1998).
Analytical/Critical Topics
Joe Davies, The Gothic Imagination in the Music of Franz Schubert (Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, 2024).
Brian Newbould, Schubert's Workshop: Two Volumes (New York & Abingdon: Routledge, 2023).
Arabella Pare, Franz Schubert: The Fragmentary Piano Sonatas, Schubert: Perspektiven – Studien 7 (Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2022).
Richard Kramer, From the Ruins of Enlightenment: Beethoven and Schubert in Their Solitude (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2022).
Benedict Taylor, ‘Schubert and the Construction of Memory: The String Quartet in A minor, D 804 (‘Rosamunde’)’, Journal of the Royal Musical Association, 139/1 (2014), 41–88.
Kristina Muxfeldt, Vanishing Sensibilities: Schubert, Beethoven, Schumann (New York: Oxford University Press, 2012).
James William Sobaskie, ‘Schubert’s Self-Elegies’, Nineteenth-Century Music Review 5/2 (2008), 71–105.
James William Sobaskie, ‘A Balance Struck: Gesture, Form, and Drama in Schubert’s E-flat Major Piano Trio’, in Le style instrumental de Schubert: sources, analyse, évolution, ed. Xavier Hascher (Paris: Publications de la Sorbonne, 2007), 115–146.
Scott Burnham, ‘Landscape as Music, Landscape as Truth: Schubert and the Burden of Repetition’, 19th Century Music (2005), 31–41.
Michael Spitzer, ‘Mapping the Human Heart: a Holistic Analysis of Fear in Schubert’, Music Analysis 28 (2010), 149–213.
Philip Brett, ‘Piano Four-Hands: Schubert and the Performance of Gay Male Desire’, 19th-Century Music 21/2 (1997), 149–176.
Susan McClary, ‘Constructions of Subjectivity in Schubert’s Music’, in Queering the Pitch: The New Gay and Lesbian, ed. Philip Brett, Elizabeth Wood, and Gary C. Thomas (London & New York: Routledge, 1994), 205–233.
Susan Youens, ‘Schubert, Mahler and the Weight of the Past: “Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen” and “Winterreise”’, Music & Letters 67/3 (1986), 256–268.
Works: Song
Marjorie W. Hirsch and Lisa Feurzeig (eds), The Cambridge Companion to Winterreise (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021).
Natasha Loges, ‘Detours on a Winter’s Journey: Schubert’s Winterreise in Nineteenth-Century Concerts’, Journal of American Musicological Society 74/1 (2021), 1–42.
Lisa Feurzeig, Schubert’s Lieder and the Philosophy of Early German Romanticism (Farnham: Ashgate, 2014).
Lauri Suurpää, Death in Winterreise: Music-Poetic Associations in Schubert’s Song Cycle (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2014).
Graham Johnson, Franz Schubert: The Complete Songs (Yale University Press, 2014).
Blake Howe, ‘The Allure of Dissolution: Bodies, Forces, and Cyclicity in Schubert’s Final Mayrhofer Settings’, Journal of the American Musicological Society 62/2 (2009), 271–322.
Lorraine Byrne Bodley, Schubert’s Goethe Settings (Farnham: Ashgate, 2003).
Susan Youens, Schubert’s Late Lieder: Beyond the Song Cycles (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002).
Lawrence Kramer, Franz Schubert: Sexuality, Subjectivity, Song (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998).
Susan Youens, Schubert, Müller, and Die schöne Müllerin (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997).
Susan Youens, Retracing a Winter’s Journey: Schubert’s Winterreise (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1991).
John Reed, The Schubert Song Companion (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1985).
Works: Instrumental Music
Anne Hyland, Schubert's String Quartets: The Teleology of Lyric Form (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023).
John Gingerich, Schubert’s Beethoven Project (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014).
Susan Wollenberg, Schubert’s Fingerprints: Studies in the Instrumental Works (Farnham: Ashgate, 2011).
Suzannah Clark, Analyzing Schubert (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011).
Su Yin Mak, Schubert’s Lyricism Reconsidered. Structure, Design and Rhetoric (Saarbrücken: Lambert, 2010).
Robert Hatten, Interpreting Musical Gestures, Topics, and Tropes: Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2004).
Charles Fisk, Returning Cycles: Contexts for the Interpretation of Schubert’s Impromptus and Last Sonatas (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001).
Nicholas Marston, ‘Schubert’s Homecoming’, Journal of the Royal Musical Association 125/2 (2000), 248–270.
Hans-Joachim Hinrichsen, Untersuchungen zur Entwicklung der Sonatenform in der Instrumentalmusik Franz Schuberts (Tutzing: Hans Schneider, 1994).
Brian Newbould, Schubert and the Symphony: A New Perspective (Surbiton: Toccata Press, 1992).
Works: Theatre and Sacred Music
James William Sobaskie, ‘The Dramatic Monologue of Schubert’s Mass in A flat Major’, in Drama in the Music of Franz Schubert, ed. Joe Davies and Sobaskie (Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, 2019), 51–84.
Lisa Feurzeig, ‘Elusive Intimacy in Schubert’s Final Opera, Der Graf von Gleichen’, in Rethinking Schubert, ed. Lorraine Byrne Bodley and Julian Horton (New York: Oxford University Press, 2016), 333–354.
Leo Black, Franz Schubert: Music and Belief (Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2003).
Glenn Stanley, ‘Schubert’s Religious and Choral Music: Toward a Statement of Faith’, in The Cambridge Companion to Schubert, ed. Christopher H. Gibbs (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997), 207–223.
Thomas A. Denny, ‘Schubert’s Operas: ‘the judgement of history?”’, in The Cambridge Companion to Schubert, ed. Christopher H. Gibbs (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997), 224–238.
Elizabeth N. McKay, Schubert's Music for the Theatre (Tutzing: Hans Schneider, 1991).