Prof.Lorraine Byrne Bodley MRIA is leading a study day in Oxford ‘Schubert and Mortality’ inspired by her books Schubert’s Late Music (CUP, 2016) and Rethinking Schubert (Oxford, 2016). Lorraine Byrne Bodley will present two lectures ‘Unresting Death: On Schubert’s Final Years’ and ‘A Familiar Ghost: Death’s Presence in Schubert’s songs’ both of which draw on recent research from her Yale biography and explore how the composer's changing conception of death influenced his music across his all-too-brief life. As part of the study day, Lorraine is collaborating with the internationally acclaimed pianist Imogen Cooper who will begin her trilogy of Schubert last three piano sonatas, and also with James Gilchrist and Anna Tilbrook, who will perform a programme of Schubert songs reflecting on mortality and figures of death.
SCHUBERT & MORTALITY: IMOGEN COOPER, JAMES GILCHRIST, ANNA TILBROOK & LORRAINE BYRNE BODLEY