Schumann and his world
By: edited by R. Larry Todd
Contributors: Bard Music Festival
Series: Princeton legacy library; Princeton legacy library
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Princeton, New Jersey
Language: eng
Number of pages: 396
ISBN-13: 9780691607023
Copyright date: 1994
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation
Notes: Reprint. Originally published: 1994.

"Published in conjunction with the Bard Music Festival"--Half-title verso.

"List of contributors": pages 395-396.

Includes bibliographical references and index (index of names and compositions).
Table of contents: title: Essays.; title: History, rhetoric, and the self : Robert Schumann and music making in German-speaking Europe, 1800-1860  -- Leon Botstein; title: Schumann's homelessness  -- Michael P. Steinberg; title: On quotation in Schumann's music  -- R. Larry Todd; title: Schumann's symphonic finales  -- Gerd Nauhaus ; translated by Susan Gillespie; title: Schumann's "new genre for the concert hall" : Das Paradies und die Peri in the eyes of a contemporary  -- John Daverio; title: The intentional tourist : romantic irony in the Eichendorff Liederkreis of Robert Schumann  -- Jon W. Finson; title: "Actually, taken directly from family life" : Robert Schumann's Album für die Jugend -- Bernhard R. Appel ; translated by John Michael Cooper; title: Letters and memoirs.; title: The correspondence between Clara Wieck Schumann and Felix and Paul Mendelssohn  -- Nancy B. Reich; title: Reminiscences of Robert Schumann (1878)  -- Richard Pohl ; translated by John Michael Cooper; title: Robert Schumann in Endenich (1899)  -- Eduard Hanslick ; translated by Susan Gillespie; title: Schumanniana (1925) -- Frederick Niecks; title: Criticism.; title: On Robert Schumann's piano compositions (1844)  -- Carl Kossmaly ; translated by Susan Gillespie; title: Robert Schumann with reference to Mendelssohn-Bartholdy and the development of modern music in general (1845)  -- Franz Brendel ; translated by Jürgen Thym; title: Robert Schumann (1855)  -- Franz Liszt ; translated by John Michael Cooper, Christopher Anderson, and R. Larry Todd; title: Schumanniana no. 4 : the present musical epoch and Robert Schumann's position in music history (1861)  -- Adolf Schubring ; translated by John Michael Cooper; title: On Schumann as symphonist (1904-1906) -- Felix Weingartner.