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Book SynopsisWe 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
Trade Review"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
Table of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsHistory, Rhetoric, and the Self: Robert Schumann and Music Making in German-Speaking Europe, 1800-18603Schumann's Homelessness47On Quotation in Schumann's Music80Schumann's Symphonic Finales113Schumann's "New Genre for the Concert Hall": Das Paradies und die Peri in the Eyes of a Contemporary129The Intentional Tourist: Romantic Irony in the Eichendorff Liederkreis of Robert Schumann156"Actually, Taken Directly from Family Life": Robert Schumann's Album fur die Jugend171The Correspondence between Clara Wieck Schumann and Felix and Paul Mendelssohn205Reminiscences of Robert Schumann (1878)233Robert Schumann in Endenich (1899)268Schumanniana (1925)288On Robert Schumann's Piano Compositions (1844)303Robert Schumann with Reference to Mendelssohn-Bartholdy and the Development of Modern Music in General (1845)317Robert Schumann (1855)338Schumanniana No. 4: The Present Musical Epoch and Robert Schumann's Position in Music History (1861)362On Schumann as Symphonist (1904-1906)375Index of Names and Compositions385List of Contributors395
