Enchanted wanderer : the life of Carl Maria von Weber / by Lucy Poate Stebbins and Richard Poate Stebbins.
| Author/creator | Stebbins, Lucy Poate |
| Other author | Stebbins, Richard Poate, 1913-2011. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | New York : G. P. Putnam's Sons, ©1940. |
| Description | xi, 345 pages : frontispiece, plates, portraits ; 22 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Noisy Webers -- Father and son -- Lad's will -- Stranger at the erl-king's palace -- A young man and his friends -- Further search for the blue flower -- Pilgrim and stranger -- Soul in bondage -- Wanderer's night song -- The lovely town -- Bridal chorus -- Klein Hosterwitz -- The great year -- Top of the mountain -- Sister Euryanthe -- Sehnsucht -- Journey without end -- Weber in London -- The lonely heart. |
| Abstract | "Enchanted Wanderer is a fascinating story of a great, neglected composer, Carl Maria von Weber. With this biography, Lucy and Richard Poate Stebbins have supplied a long-standing need. In a pleasing and readable style, through careful research, the authors have supplied a long-standing need. In a pleasing and readable style, through careful research, the authors have presented the composer with honest sincerity. He becomes a living personage set in a frame of the early Romantic period, which relates him to his contemporaries, many of whom become very real in the pages of this book. It reads like a novel, although it is a truthful record of Weber's tragic life."--Marion Bauer. |
| Bibliography note | "A Weber bibliography": pages 321-337. |
| Biographical note | "Lucy and Richard Poate Stebbins (mother and son) are indebted to the Oberlaender Fellowship for the opportunity to spend a summer in Europe collecting material from the Prussian State Library in Berlin, the Saxon Provincial Library in Dresden, the former Austrian National Library in Vienna, the Bavarian State Library in Munich, the National and University Library in Prague, and the British Museum. Lucy Poate Stebbins is already well known as an author of popular romances. Born in England, she spent the greater part of her childhood traveling around the globe. She is a naturalized American citizen and mother of three children. Richard Stebbins, her son, was graduated from Harvard University, magna cum laude, in 1933 and received the Sheldon Fellowship for European travel in the same year. He received his Masters at Harvard in 1935 and at present has a teaching position in the History Department while studying for his Ph.D. His work in the fields of music and history has already appeared in a number of journals."--Dust jacket. |
| LCCN | 40007555 |