Mendelssohn and Schumann
Subtitle: essays on their music and its context
By: edited by Jon W. Finson and R. Larry Todd.
Contributors: Finson, Jon W.; Todd, R. Larry.
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 1984
Place of publication: Durham, N.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 189
Subjects: Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Felix, 1809-1847; Schumann, Robert, 1810-1856
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Contemporary criticism: Schumann's critical reaction to Mendelssohn / Leon Plantinga. Schumann in Brendel's Neue Zeitschrift für Musik from 1845 to 1856 / Jurgen Thym; title: Compositional process: A sketch leaf for Schumann's D-minor symphony / Rufus Hallmark. The sources for Schumann's Davidsbündlertänze, op. 6, composition, textual problems, and the role of the composer as editor / Linda Correll Roesner. Mendelssohn's late chamber music, some autograph sources recovered / Friedhelm Krummacher; title: Contextual studies: Three musical intimates of Mendelssohn and Schumann in Leipzig; title: Hauptmann, Moscheles, and David / William S. Newman. Fanny Hensel's letters to Felix Mendelssohn in the Green-books collection at Oxford / Marcia J. Citron. Mendelssohn's collision with the Saint-Simonians / Ralph P. Locke; title: Literary influences: Schumann and Shakespeare / Jon W. Finson. Mendelssohn's Ossianic manner, with a new source; title: On Lena's gloomy heath / R. Larry Todd.