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Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:
September 2011
Print publication year:
2007
Online ISBN:
9781139001540
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CCOL9780521783415
Subjects:
Music, Music: General Interest, Nineteenth-Century Music
Collection:
The Cambridge Companions to Music
Series:
Cambridge Companions to Music
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Book description

This Companion is an accessible introduction to Schumann: his time, his temperament, his style and his œuvre. An international team of scholars explores the cultural context, musical and poetic fabric, sources of inspiration and interpretative reach of key works from the Schumann repertoire ranging from his famous lieder and piano pieces to chamber, orchestral and dramatic works. Additional chapters address Schumann's presence in nineteenth- and twentieth-century composition and the fascinating reception history of his late works. Tables, illustrations, a detailed chronology and advice on further reading make it an ideally informative handbook for both the Schumann connoisseur and the music lover. An excellent textbook for the university student of courses on key composers of nineteenth-century Western Classical music, it is an invaluable guide for all who are interested in the thought, aesthetics and affective power of one of the most intriguing figures of a culturally rich and formative period.

Reviews

‘Her own chapter, Schumann’s Lives and Afterlives: An Introduction’, is … a good overview’.

Source: London Review of Books

‘… the overall excellence of the Cambridge series, with its greater academic and analytical content than Oxford’s, is upheld by this Schumann volume.’

Source: Classical Music

‘Readers unaware of the full extent of Schumann’s compositional mastery, or his staggering originality will surely finish this volume newly enlightened.’

Source: Classical Music

'This companion is an excellent starting point.'

Source: Reference Reviews

'… an impressive introduction ti the many facets of Schumann's illustrious life and fascinating music.'

Source: Journal for the Society for Musicology in Ireland

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