Franz Schubert was born in Austria to a musical family who imbued him with a love of the lied – a 19th-century style of German art song. With the look and feel of hand-tooled leather, this magnetic wrap closure book features his musical adaptation of Goethe’s poem Der Erlkönig, which itself an adaptation of an old Scandinavian folktale about a father whose son dies along with his signature along the front. The deep emerald hue of the cover implies the tragedy and the foreboding character of the enchanted forest.
Today, Schubert is among the greatest late-Classical, early-Romantic composers. His experimentation was a bit too leading edge for audiences of his day, but he set the stage for the bold and inventive artists who followed.
Designed with smyth sewn binding with a satin ribbon marker, the journal is constructed of 100% recycled binder boards and contains 144 lined pages of acid-free paper and a back inside pocket for notes and mementos. 7" x 9".
