Schumann and His World

by Todd, R. Larry; Bard Music Festival

• ISBN13: 9780691036984
• ISBN10: 0691036985
• Format: Paperback
• 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 fur 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 Part II presents letters and memoirs, including unpublished correspondence between Clara Schumann and Felix a

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Acknowledgments	xi
PART I ESSAYS
History, Rhetoric, and the Self: Robert Schumann and Music Making in German-Speaking Europe, 1800-1860	3	(44)
Leon Botstein
Schumann's Homelessness	47	(33)
Michael P. Steinberg
On Quotation in Schumann's Music	80	(33)
R. Larry Todd
Schumann's Symphonic Finales	113	(16)
Gerd Nauhaus
Susan Gillespie
Schumann's ``New Genre for the Concert Hall'': Das Paradies und die Peri in the Eyes of Contemporary	129	(27)
John Daverio
The Intentional Tourist: Romantic Irony in the Eichendorff Liederkreis of Robert Schumann	156	(15)
Jon W. Finson
``Actually, Taken Directly from Family Life'': Robert Schumann's Album fur die Jugend	171	(34)
Bernhard R. Appel
John Michael Cooper
PART II LETTERS AND MEMOIRS
The Correspondence between Clara Wieck Schumann and Felix and Paul Mendelssohn	205	(28)
Nancy B. Reich
Reminiscences of Robert Schumann (1878)	233	(35)
Richard Pohl
John Michael Cooper
Robert Schumann in Endenich (1899)	268	(20)
Eduard Hanslick
Susan Gillespie
Schumanniana (1925)	288	(15)
Frederick Niecks
PART III CRITICISM
On Robert Schumann's Piano Compositions (1844)	303	(14)
Carl Kobmaly
Susan Gillespie
Robert Schumann with Reference to Mendelssohn-Bartholdy and the Development of Modern Music in General (1845)	317	(21)
Franz Brendel
Jurgen Thym
Robert Schumann (1855)	338	(24)
Franz Liszt
John Michael Cooper
Christopher Anderson
R. Larry Todd
Schumanniana No.4: The Present Musical Epoch and Robert Schumann's Position in Music History (1861)	362	(13)
Adolf Schubring
John Michael Cooper
On Schumann as Symphonist (1904--1906)	375	(10)
Felix Weingariner
Index of Names and Compositions	385	(10)
List of Contributors	395