Schubert And Schumann
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Crossing Paths
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Author : John Daverio
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2002-10-03
Crossing Paths written by John Daverio and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-10-03 with Music categories.
In Crossing Paths, John Daverio explores the connections between art and life in the works of three giants of musical romanticism. Drawing on contemporary critical theory and a wide variety of nineteenth-century sources, he considers topics including Schubert and Schumann's uncanny ability to evoke memory in music, the supposed cryptographic practices of Schumann and Brahms, and the allure of the Hungarian Gypsy style for Brahms and others in the Schumann circle. The book offers a fresh perspective on the music of these composers, including a comprehensive discussion of the 19th century practice of cryptography, a debunking of the myth that Schumann and Brahms planted codes for "Clara Schumann" throughout their works, and attention to the late works of Schumann not as evidence of the composer's descent into madness but as inspiration for his successors. Daverio portrays the book's three key players as musical storytellers, each in his own way simulating the structure of lived experience in works of art. As an intimate study of three composers that combines cultural history and literary criticism with deep musicological understanding, Crossing Paths is a rich exploration of memory, the re-creation of artistic tradition, and the value of artistic influence.
Schubert And Schumann
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Author : Franz Schubert
language : en
Publisher: [Carlton, Vic.] : Melbourne University Press, [1971, i.e. 1972]
Release Date : 1972
Schubert And Schumann written by Franz Schubert and has been published by [Carlton, Vic.] : Melbourne University Press, [1971, i.e. 1972] this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1972 with Music categories.
Vanishing Sensibilities
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Author : Kristina Muxfeldt
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2012-04-01
Vanishing Sensibilities written by Kristina Muxfeldt and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-04-01 with Music categories.
Vanishing Sensibilities examines once passionate cultural concerns that shaped music of Schubert, Beethoven, Schumann, and works of their contemporaries in drama or poetry. Music, especially music with text, was a powerful force in lively ongoing conversations about the nature of liberty, which included such topics as the role of consent in marriage, same-sex relationships, freedom of the press, and the freedom to worship (or not). Among the most common vehicles for stimulating debate about pressing social concerns were the genres of historical drama, and legend or myth, whose stories became inflected in fascinating ways during the Age of Metternich. Interior and imagined worlds, memories and fantasies, were called up in purely instrumental music, and music was privately celebrated for its ability to circumvent the restrictions that were choking the verbal arts. Author Kristina Muxfeldt invites us to listen in on these cultural conversations, dating from a time when the climate of censorship made the tone of what was said every bit as important as its literal content. At this critical moment in European history such things as a performer's delivery, spontaneous improvisation, or the demeanor of the music could carry forbidden messages of hope and political resistance--flying under the censor's radar like a carrier pigeon. Rather than trying to decode or fix meanings, Muxfeldt concerns herself with the very mechanisms of their communication, and she confronts distortions to meaning that form over time as the cultural or political pressures shaping the original expression fade and are eventually forgotten. In these pages are accounts of works successful in their own time alongside others that failed to achieve more than a liminal presence, among them Schubert's Alfonso und Estrella and his last opera project Der Graf von Gleichen, whose libretto was banned even before Schubert set to work composing it. Enlivening the narrative are generous music examples, reproductions of artwork, and facsimiles of autograph material.
The Life And Works Of Robert Schumann
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Author : August Reissmann
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1886
The Life And Works Of Robert Schumann written by August Reissmann and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1886 with Composers categories.
Schubert In The European Imagination
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Author : Scott Messing
language : en
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Release Date : 2006
Schubert In The European Imagination written by Scott Messing and has been published by Boydell & Brewer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Music categories.
The concept of Schubert as a feminine type vaulted into prominence in 1838. This book reveals in an analysis of the response to Schubert in England. It examines the historical reception of Franz Schubert as conveyed through the gendered imagery and language of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century European culture.
Schumann On Music
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Author : Robert Schumann
language : en
Publisher: Dover Books on Music: Composer
Release Date : 1988
Schumann On Music written by Robert Schumann and has been published by Dover Books on Music: Composer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Schumann's genius as a composer is well known; perhaps less well known is the fact that he was also a gifted music critic who wrote hundreds of perceptive essays, articles, and reviews for the Neue Zeitschrift fur M�sik, the influential music journal he founded in 1834. The present work, translated and edited by noted critic Henry Pleasants, contains 61 of the most important critical pieces Schumann wrote for Neue Zeitschrift between 1834 and 1844. The articles are arranged in chronological order, with ample annotation, demonstrating not only Schumann's development as a writer and critic but also the evolution of music in Europe during a decisive decade. In addition to such major set pieces as "Florestan's Shrovetide Oration," the essays on Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique and Schubert's Symphony in C Major, and the imaginative and literate "The Editor's Ball," this volume offers discerning observations on Mendelssohn, Chopin, Beethoven, Liszt, Cherubini, and other giants. Also included are critical considerations of an ensemble of minor masters: Sphor, Hiller, Moscheles, Hummel, and Gade, among others. The result is a rich and representative picture of musical life in the mid-19th century. Schumann's criticism has long been famous for its perceptiveness and literary style. Those qualities are in ample evidence in this treasury of his finest critical writings, now available to every music lover in this inexpensive, high-quality edition.
The Nineteenth Century German Lied
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Author : Lorraine Gorrell
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2005-11-01
The Nineteenth Century German Lied written by Lorraine Gorrell and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-11-01 with Music categories.
The development of the piano, together with changes in culture and society, led to the transformation of song into a major musical genre. This study of the great lieder of 19th-century composers Schubert, Schumann, Brahms, and Hugo Wolf also includes lesser-known composers, such as Louis Spohr and Robert Franz, plus significant contributions from women composers and performers.
Schumann The Romantic Age
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Author : Marcel Brion
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1956
Schumann The Romantic Age written by Marcel Brion and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1956 with Romanticism in music categories.
Schumann's life and achievement in relation to early 19th century German romanticism.
The Musical World Of Robert Schumann
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Author : Robert Schumann
language : en
Publisher: London : V. Gollancz
Release Date : 1965
The Musical World Of Robert Schumann written by Robert Schumann and has been published by London : V. Gollancz this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1965 with Composers categories.
"Robert Schumann was almost as important in his day for his criticism as for his compositions. His influence was great: it was thanks to him for instance that Berlioz was taken up with enthusiasm by the new romantic school in Germany when he visited the country in 1842. Schumann was one of the very first, also, to recognise the genius of Chopin, and to poke fun at German extra-musical Beethoven-worship. For ten years (1834-44) he owned, edited, and for the most part, wrote the Neue Zeitschrift fur Musik, but there has been no satisfactorily edited volume of these writings to date. A selection was translated by Fanny Raymond Ritter in 1876-79 and another translated by Paul Rosenfeld in 1946; in both cases, however, chronological order was disregarded and annotation was meagre. Moreover, the latter concentrated almost exclusively on what Schumann had written about the great masters. Henry Pleasants believes that chronological arrangement is essential to an understanding both of Schumann's progress as a writer and critic and of music in Germany during a decisive decade. He also believes that Schumann's status as a critic cannot be assessed and enjoyed simply from his glowing accounts of the greatest works, but that his views on composers such as Spohr, Hiller, Thalberg, Cramer and Sir William Sterndale Bennett (to name only a few of his contemporaries, famous then but little remembered today) are also important. Many of these composers were Schumann's friends, and his criticisms of their work tell us not only about them but also about Schumann himself. Mr. Pleasants has chosen a cross-section that reveals Schumann's critical powers as fully as possible, places him in perspective among his fellow musicians, and demonstrates his knowledge and appreciation of the composer's craft. The Neue Zeitschrift itself had a romantic beginning, late in 1833. Beethoven, Schubert and Weber were dead, and there seemed little ground for optimism about the future of music in Germany. A group of young men, eager for an advance, launched the magazine: but like many enterprises of its kind it was on the point of early dissolution when Schumann took it over. Wishing to express widely divergent views, he invented for the purpose the Davidsbundler, with Florestan and Eusebius as the principal members and master Raro as an intermediary. These names--so familiar to lovers of music and ballet, for he used two of them in his Carnaval variations--appear throughout the selection, humorously combining truth and poetry. Schumann was a sophisticated critic whose knowledge of, and sympathy with, his art and its exponents make him a model for generations to come. His selected writings, now for the first time fully annotated, are an outstanding and distinguished addition to our growing list of classics about music." --Dust jacket.
Robert Schumann His Life And Work
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Author : Ronald Taylor
language : en
Publisher: Universe Publishing(NY)
Release Date : 1982
Robert Schumann His Life And Work written by Ronald Taylor and has been published by Universe Publishing(NY) this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1982 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
"Ronald Taylor has written the first full-length account of the life, times and work of Robert Schumann for many years. Based on a fresh reading of the original German sources, this wide-ranging, authoritative biography reveals the mind of Schumann behind the traditional image of the sad, romantic comoser of lyrical songs and piano music. Born into a literary family in Zwickau, Saxony, Robert Schumann (1810-56) was a contemporary of Berlioz, Mendelssohn, Chopin, Liszt and Wagner, and Ronald Taylor shows how throughout his life the twin strands of literature and music interacted. His artistic creativity was most perfectly expressed in miniature, in small-scale works for the piano and in songs, but in addition he composed much orchestral and other work on a grander scale: all this while his life was marred by dramatic crises and sadness. The crucial moments in Schumann's life are movingly recaptured: his four-year struggle, against her father's opposition, to marry the pianist Clara Wieck, his fight against his reticent, withdrawn nature and disturbing extremes of mood (possibly exacerbated by syphilis); his financial worries and the disappointing reception of his music; and finally his attempted suicide and decline into madness. By relating Schumann's work to his intellectual and spiritual life, to the historical currents of his age and to the specific context of 19th-century Romanticism, Ronald Taylor has written a coherent, thoughtful and ultimately tragic biography of one of the musical geniuses of the 19th century."--Dust jacket.