The Life of Franz Schubert — Volume I
Researched Bibliographic Dossier
Verified edition data and a musicological research note prepared specifically for this work.
- Title
- The Life of Franz Schubert — Volume I
- Author
- Heinrich Kreissle von Hellborn
- Translator
- Arthur Duke Coleridge
- Publisher
- Longmans, Green, and Co.
- Place
- London
- Year
- 1869
- Original publication
- Franz Schubert, Vienna: Gerold, 1865
- Language
- English, translated from German
- Type
- Documentary biography / early Schubert scholarship
- Notes
- First of two English volumes; based partly on reminiscences gathered by Ferdinand Luib.
SCOPE & CONTENT
Kreissle’s work was the first full-length biography of Schubert and drew on testimony from people within the composer’s Viennese circle, including material gathered for an earlier projected biography by Ferdinand Luib. Volume I covers the formative and central years and preserves a large body of early Schubert tradition.
RESEARCH VALUE
Because it stands so close to the first generation of Schubert memory, it is indispensable but not automatically reliable. Modern archival research has corrected chronology and details, while the book remains essential for understanding how the first coherent Schubert biography was assembled.
BIBLIOGRAPHIC AND HISTORICAL CONTEXT
This dossier preserves concrete edition-level information wherever it can be verified and distinguishes original publication history from later translations or reissues. The record is designed to make title, author, volume, translator and publication variants independently searchable.
RESEARCH VALUE AND LIMITS
The record identifies what the volume can contribute to research and also flags the need to distinguish primary testimony, later editorial framing, reception history and modern factual authority. Existing valid catalogue metadata are never overwritten.
- Catalogue completeness
- 7 / 10 core bibliographic fields