Schumann's virtuosity
Subtitle: criticism, composition, and performance in nineteenth-century Germany
By: Alexander Stefaniak
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9780253021991
Copyright date: 2016
Subjects: Virtuosity in musical performance; Influence; Music; Philosophy and aesthetics; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-286) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction.  The virtuosity discourse; title: Schumann and the piano virtuosity of the 1830s. Florestan among the revelers : postclassical virtuosity and Schumann's critique of pleasure; title: Florestan's wine, Clara Wieck's spirit : postclassical virtuosity and poetic interiority; title: Poetic showpieces in the cultivated salon; title: Virtuosity and the rhetoric of the sublime; title: Schumann's virtuosity and the culture of the work concept. Steps to Parnassus? : Schumann's equivocal work concept; title: Festivals of the virtuoso priesthood : collaborating with Clara Schumann and Joseph Joachim; title: Epilogue.