Schumann and His World - Brossura

Bard Music Festival

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0691036985 ISBN 13: 9780691036984

Casa editrice: Princeton Univ Pr, 1994

Riassunto

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 research, this collection offers new perspectives on this seminal 19th-century figure. In Part I, Leon Botstein and Michael P. Steinberg assess Schumann's efforts to place music at the centre 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 far die Jugend", Op. 68, while John Daverio considers the generic identity of "Das Paradies und die Peri", and Jon W. Finson re-examines 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 Part II presents letters and memoirs, including unpublished correspondence between Clara Schumann and Felix and Paul Mendelssohn-Bartholdy.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. Some of these sources are translated into English for the first time.

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Recensione

"The seven studies of [Robert Schumann] and his music cover the composer's inspirations, his sources, and his relations with numerous interesting people. . . . [a] well-rounded and interesting picture of the composer and his times."--Library Journal

"This volume . . . edited by the American scholar Larry R. Todd, contains a substantial essay on the composer's cultural background, . . . a comparably comprehensive piece . . . linking sociological to psychological motives, . . . and a fascinating account by the editor of Schumann's use of quotation and self-quotation. . . . Parts 2 and 3 of the book reprint letters, memoirs and critical commentaries by Schumann's contemporaries and successors."--Times Literary Supplement

"Rich in new ideas."--Choice

Contenuti

	Preface
	Acknowledgments
	History, Rhetoric, and the Self: Robert Schumann and Music Making in German-Speaking Europe, 1800-1860	3
	Schumann's Homelessness	47
	On Quotation in Schumann's Music	80
	Schumann's Symphonic Finales	113
	Schumann's "New Genre for the Concert Hall": Das Paradies und die Peri in the Eyes of a Contemporary	129
	The Intentional Tourist: Romantic Irony in the Eichendorff Liederkreis of Robert Schumann	156
	"Actually, Taken Directly from Family Life": Robert Schumann's Album fur die Jugend	171
	The Correspondence between Clara Wieck Schumann and Felix and Paul Mendelssohn	205
	Reminiscences of Robert Schumann (1878)	233
	Robert Schumann in Endenich (1899)	268
	Schumanniana (1925)	288
	On Robert Schumann's Piano Compositions (1844)	303
	Robert Schumann with Reference to Mendelssohn-Bartholdy and the Development of Modern Music in General (1845)	317
	Robert Schumann (1855)	338
	Schumanniana No. 4: The Present Musical Epoch and Robert Schumann's Position in Music History (1861)	362
	On Schumann as Symphonist (1904-1906)	375
	Index of Names and Compositions	385
	List of Contributors	395

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Princeton Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1994
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0691036985
• ISBN 13: 9780691036984
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 393
• Redattore: Todd R. Larry
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile