Lorraine Byrne Bodley
LORRAINE byrne BODLEY
SCHUBERT: A MUSICAL WAYFARER (2023)
Franz Schubert (born 1797) was an Austrian composer of the early 19th century. Despite dying at the tragically early age of 31, he left behind a vast body of work, including more than 600 lieder. He also composed seven symphonies, operas, piano music, and incidental music. After his death his music was championed by Johannes Brahms, Franz Liszt, and Felix Mendelssohn.
Lorraine Byrne Bodley’s biography of Franz Schubert draws on substantial archival research in the Czech Republic and Vienna. Ivan Hewett, reviewing the book in the Telegraph, wrote: "A fascinating and invaluable addition to this burgeoning literature. . . . No one alive is better equipped to slay the various Schubert myths--and her biography is undoubtedly the most scrupulous and best-informed so far." The Times Literary Supplement described it as: "[A] remarkably informative book, revealing musical and historical insights that have long been hidden."
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Lorraine Byrne Bodley is Professor of Musicology at Maynooth University, county Kildare, Ireland. She has a doctorate in Music and in German from University College Dublin and is one of the world’s leading experts on Schubert and is President of the Society for Musicology in Ireland.
