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Rufus Hallmark, Frauenliebe und Leben: Chamisso’s Poems and Schumann’s Songs (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014). xv + 276 pp. £65.00.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 August 2015

Julie Hedges Brown*
Affiliation:
Northern Arizona UniversityJulie.Brown@nau.edu

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References

1 Solie, Ruth, ‘Whose Life? The Gendered Self in Schumann’s Frauenliebe Songs’, in Music and Text: Critical Inquiries, ed. Steven Paul Scher (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1992): 219240CrossRefGoogle Scholar. Hallmark also acknowledges Solie’s ‘stimulating correspondence and discussions with me through the years’. Other critical readings that influenced Hallmark’s work include (in chronological order) Walz, Matthias, ‘Frauenliebe und Leben Op. 42: Biedermeierdichtung, Zykluskonstruktion und musikalische Lyrik’, in Schumann Studien 15. Wissenschaftliche Arbeitstagung zu Fragen der Schumann-Forschung, Zwickau 1992, ed. Gerd Nauhaus (Cologne: Studio, 1996): 97118Google Scholar; Muxfeldt, Kristina, ‘Frauenliebe und Leben Now and Then’, 19th Century Music 25/1 (2001): 2748CrossRefGoogle Scholar; see also Chapter 3 of her book Vanishing Sensibilities: Schubert, Beethoven, Schumann (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2012); Guralnick, Elissa S., ‘“Ah Clara, I am not worthy of your love”: Rereading Frauenliebe und Leben, the Poetry and the Music’, Music & Letters 87/4 (2006): 580605CrossRefGoogle Scholar; and Hopfgartner, Herbert J., ‘Adelbert Chamisso: Revolutionär oder Biedermann? Der Liederkreis Frauenliebe und Leben im soziokulturelle Diskurs’, Studia Niemcoznawcze 37 (2008): 113129Google Scholar.

2 Solie, ‘Whose Life? The Gendered Self in Schumann’s Frauenliebe Songs’, 220.

3 Figes, Eva, Patriarchal Attitudes (Greenwich, CT: Fawcett Publications, 1971), 109Google Scholar; cited in Hallmark, p. 10.

4 Muxfeldt, ‘Frauenliebe und Leben Now and Then’, 35 and n. 24. The comment stems from Friedrich Hebbel’s 1839 review of J. Eduard Hitzig’s biography of Chamisso, who had died the year before.

5 Solie, , ‘Whose Life? The Gendered Self in Schumann’s Frauenliebe Songs’, 220Google Scholar.

6 Muxfeldt, ‘Frauenliebe und Leben Now and Then’, 34.

7 Solie, ‘Whose Life? The Gendered Self in Schumann’s Frauenliebe Songs’, 228.

8 Cited in Hallmark, p. 141.

9 Solie, , ‘Whose Life? The Gendered Self in Schumann’s Frauenliebe Songs’, 228Google Scholar.

10 Muxfeldt, , ‘Frauenliebe und Leben Now and Then’: 34Google Scholar.