Schumann and His World

Published by Princeton University Press 1994

Schumann and His World

Edited by: R. Larry Todd

Volume 36 in the series The Bard Music Festival

In the series Princeton Legacy Library

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400863860

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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 Part II presents letters and memoirs, including unpublished correspondence between Clara Schumann and Felix and Paul Mendelssohn-Bartholdy.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.

The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Reviews

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.

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.

Rich in new ideas.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Preface Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	vii
Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	xi
PART I. ESSAYS
History, Rhetoric, and the Self: Robert Schumann and Music Making in German-Speaking Europe, 1800-1860 Leon Botstein Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	3
Schumann's Homelessness Michael P. Steinberg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	47
On Quotation in Schumann's Music R. Larry Todd Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	80
Schumann's Symphonic Finales Gerd Nauhaus Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	113
Schumann's "New Genre for the Concert Hall": Das Paradies und die Peri in the Eyes of a Contemporary John Daverio Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	129
The Intentional Tourist: Romantic Irony in the Eichendorff Liederkreis of Robert Schumann Jon W. Finson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	156
"Actually, Taken Directly from Family Life": Robert Schumann's Album fur die Jugend Bernhard R. Appel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	171
PART II. LETTERS AND MEMOIRS
The Correspondence between Clara Wieck Schumann and Felix and Paul Mendelssohn Nancy B. Reich Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	205
Reminiscences of Robert Schumann (1878) Richard Pohl Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	233
Robert Schumann in Endenich (1899) Eduard Hanslick Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	268
Schumanniana (1925) Friederick Niecks Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	288
PART III. Criticism
On Robert Schumann's Piano Compositions (1844) Carl Kobmaly Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	303
Robert Schumann with Reference to Mendelssohn-Bartholdy and the Development of Modern Music in General (1845) Franz Brendel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	317
Robert Schumann (1855) Franz Liszt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	338
Schumanniana No. 4· The Present Musical Epoch and Robert Schumann's Position in Music History (1861) Adolf Schubring Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	362
On Schumann as Symphonist (1904-1906) Felix Weingartner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	375
Index of Names and Compositions Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	385
List of Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	395

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