Schumann and His World (ebook)

Argumento de Schumann and His World (ebook)

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 Part II presents letters and memoirs, including unpublished correspondence between Clara Schumann and Felix and Paul Mendelssohn-Bartholdy.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

Originally published in 1994.

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"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

"Rich in new ideas."--Choice0Preface 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