Schumann and His World /

Schumann and His World / / ed. by R. Larry Todd.

We know Robert Schumann in many ways: as a visionary composer, a seasoned journalist, a cultured man of letters, and a genius who, having passed his mantle on to the young Brahms, succumbed to mental illness in 1856. Drawing on recent pathbreaking research, this collection offers new perspectives on...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1980-1999
MitwirkendeR:
Appel, Bernhard R.,
Botstein, Leon,
Brendel, Franz,
Daverio, John,
Finson, Jon W.,
Hanslick, Eduard,
Kobmaly, Carl,
Liszt, Franz,
Nauhaus, Gerd,
Niecks, Friederick,
Pohl, Richard,
Reich, Nancy B.,
Schubring, Adolf,
Steinberg, Michael P.,
Todd, R. Larry,
Weingartner, Felix,
HerausgeberIn:
Todd, R. Larry,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014]
©1994
Year of Publication:2014
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
Series:The Bard Music Festival ; 34
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Physical Description:1 online resource (408 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • PART I. ESSAYS
  • History, Rhetoric, and the Self: Robert Schumann and Music Making in German-Speaking Europe, 1800-1860
  • Schumann's Homelessness
  • On Quotation in Schumann's Music
  • Schumann's Symphonic Finales
  • Schumann's "New Genre for the Concert Hall": Das Paradies und die Peri in the Eyes of a Contemporary
  • The Intentional Tourist: Romantic Irony in the Eichendorff Liederkreis of Robert Schumann
  • "Actually, Taken Directly from Family Life": Robert Schumann's Album fur die Jugend
  • PART II. LETTERS AND MEMOIRS
  • The Correspondence between Clara Wieck Schumann and Felix and Paul Mendelssohn
  • Reminiscences of Robert Schumann (1878)
  • Robert Schumann in Endenich (1899)
  • Schumanniana (1925)
  • PART III. Criticism
  • On Robert Schumann's Piano Compositions (1844)
  • Robert Schumann with Reference to Mendelssohn-Bartholdy and the Development of Modern Music in General (1845)
  • Robert Schumann (1855)
  • Schumanniana No. 4· The Present Musical Epoch and Robert Schumann's Position in Music History (1861)
  • On Schumann as Symphonist (1904-1906)
  • Index of Names and Compositions
  • List of Contributors

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