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Schumann and his world

Author: R Larry Todd
Publisher: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©1994.
Edition/Format:   Book : Biography : EnglishView all editions and formats
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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. This collection offers new perspectives on this nineteenth-century figure. In Part I, Leon Botstein and Michael P. Steinberg assess Schumann's efforts to place music at the center of German culture, in  Read more...
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Named Person: Robert Schumann; Robert Schumann
Material Type: Biography, Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: R Larry Todd
ISBN: 0691036977 9780691036977 0691036985 9780691036984
OCLC Number: 30028870
Notes: "Published in conjunction with the Bard Music Festival"--Half t.p. verso.
Description: x, 393 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Contents: History, rhetoric, and the self : Robert Schumann and music making in German-speaking Europe, 1800-1860 / Leon Botstein --
Schumann's homelessness / Michael P. Steinberg --
On quotation in Schumann's music / R. Larry Todd --
Schumann's symphonic finales / Gerd Nauhaus ; translated by Susan Gillespie --
Schumann's "new genre for the concert hall" : Das Paradies und die Peri in the eyes of a contemporary / John Daverio --
The intentional tourist : romantic irony in the Eichendorff Liederkreis of Robert Schumann / Jon W. Finson --
"Actually, taken directly from family life" : Robert Schumann's Album für die Jugend / Bernhard R. Appel ; translated by John Michael Cooper --
The correspondence between Clara Wieck Schumann and Felix and Paul Mendelssohn / Nancy B. Reich --
Reminiscences of Robert Schumann (1878) / Richard Pohl ; translated by John Michael Cooper --
Robert Schumann in Endenich (1899) / Eduard Hanslick ; translated by Susan Gillespie --
Schumanniana (1925) / Frederick Niecks --
On Robert Schumann's piano compositions (1844) / Carl Kossmaly ; translated by Susan Gillespie. (contd.) Robert Schumann with reference to Mendelssohn-Bartholdy and the development of modern music in general (1845) / Franz Brendel ; translated by Jürgen Thym --
Robert Schumann (1855) / Franz Liszt ; translated by John Michael Cooper, Christopher Anderson, and R. Larry Todd --
Schumanniana no. 4 : the present musical epoch and Robert Schumann's position in music history (1861) --
Adolf Schubring ; translated by John Michael Cooper --
On Schumann as symphonist (1904-1906) / Felix Weingartner.
Responsibility: edited by R. Larry Todd.
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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. This collection offers new perspectives on this nineteenth-century figure. In Part I, Leon Botstein and Michael P. Steinberg assess Schumann's efforts to place music at the center of German culture, in public and private sectors. Bernhard R. Appel offers a probing source study of one of Schumann's most personal works, the Album für die Jugend, Op. 68, while John Daverio considers the generic identity of Das Paradies und die Peri, and Jon W. Finson reexamines the first version of the Eichendorff Liederkreis. Gerd Nauhaus investigates Schumann's approach to the symphonic finale, and R. Larry Todd considers the intractable issue of quotations and allusions in Schumann's music. Part II presents letters and memoirs, including unpublished correspondence between Clara Schumann and Felix and Paul Mendelssohn-Bartholdy. In Part III, conflicting critical views of Schumann are juxtaposed. --From publisher's description.

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