Schumann and His World

by Todd, R. Larry; Bard Music Festival

• ISBN13: 9780691036977
• ISBN10: 0691036977
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1994-10-01
• Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr

Summary

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 this seminal 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 fr 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 Part II presents letters and memoirs, including unpublished correspondence between Clara Schumann and Felix and Paul Mendelssohn-Bartholdy.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. Some of these sources are translated into English for the first time.

Table of Contents

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