{"product_id":"schumanns-virtuosity-criticism-composition-and-performance-in-nineteenthcentury-germany-9780253021991","title":"Schumanns Virtuosity  Criticism Composition and","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is a fascinating look into the more abstract aspects of 19th-century musical attitudes and how it has fueled long standing conversations on the value of poetic interiority over overt technical virtuosity. \u003c\/p\u003e * American Music Teacher *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAmong the most distinguished results of Stefaniak's study is to have reminded us of...the challenges of scholarly engagement with complex, often contradictory manifestations of lived experience.\u003c\/p\u003e * Die Musikforschung *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSchumann's Virtuosity\u003c\/em\u003e is thoughtfully organized and loosely chronological, with in-depth, elegant analyses of relevant examples.\u003c\/p\u003e * Nineteenth-Century Music Review *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStefaniak's book remains a valuable resource for musicologists, theorists, pianists, and aestheticians interested in reading about Schumann's views on virtuosity.\u003c\/p\u003e * Notes *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is refreshing to read a contemporary scholarly book that embraces aesthetics so forcefully.\u003c\/p\u003e * Choice *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eStefaniak's book is commendable as a rational, appealing introduction to an important aspect of nineteenth-century music praxis as explored and articulated by a major composer and leader of the early Romantic movement.\u003c\/p\u003e * Journal of the American Musicological Society *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: The Virtuosity Discourse\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart I: Schumann and the Piano Virtuosity of the 1830s\u003cbr\u003ePart I Introduction\u003cbr\u003e1. Florestan among the Revelers: Postclassical Virtuosity and Schumann's Critique of Pleasure\u003cbr\u003e2. Florestan's Wine, Clara Wieck's Spirit: Postclassical Virtuosity and Poetic Interiority\u003cbr\u003e3. Poetic Showpieces in the Cultivated Salon\u003cbr\u003e4. Virtuosity and the Rhetoric of the Sublime\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart II: The Virtuoso on Mount Parnassus: Schumann and the Culture of the Work Concept\u003cbr\u003ePart II Introduction\u003cbr\u003e5. Steps to Parnassus? Schumann's Equivocal Work Concept\u003cbr\u003e6. Festivals of the Virtuoso Priesthood: Collaborating with Clara Schumann and Joseph Joachim\u003cbr\u003eEpilogue\u003cbr\u003eList of Endnote Abbreviations\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eBibliography\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Indiana University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400555602263,"sku":"9780253021991","price":28.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780253021991.jpg?v=1730470974","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/schumanns-virtuosity-criticism-composition-and-performance-in-nineteenthcentury-germany-9780253021991","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}