On Music and Musicians
Published on 3. April 2013
272 pages
978-0-307-82975-7 (ISBN)
Description
Edited by Konraad Wolff
Translated by Paul Rosenfeld
With twenty black-and-white illustrations
Schumann's literary gifts and interests almost equaled his musical ones. From boyhood on he was drawn to literary expression, and his writings on music belong to the best among the romantic literature of the 19th century. The same fire, poetry, directness of expression, the same inventiveness we love in his compositions, also animated his prose.
This edition for the first time groups his articles and observations according to subject matter and individual composers. It is complete as far as Schumann's writings on the great composers are concerned. All his reviews of the works by the masters, from Beethoven to Brahms, are included, some of them translated for the first time into English.
Translated by Paul Rosenfeld
With twenty black-and-white illustrations
Schumann's literary gifts and interests almost equaled his musical ones. From boyhood on he was drawn to literary expression, and his writings on music belong to the best among the romantic literature of the 19th century. The same fire, poetry, directness of expression, the same inventiveness we love in his compositions, also animated his prose.
This edition for the first time groups his articles and observations according to subject matter and individual composers. It is complete as far as Schumann's writings on the great composers are concerned. All his reviews of the works by the masters, from Beethoven to Brahms, are included, some of them translated for the first time into English.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
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File size
7,17 MB
ISBN-13
978-0-307-82975-7 (9780307829757)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Robert Schumann, in full Robert Alexander Schumann (born June 8, 1810, Zwickau, Saxony [now in Germany]-died July 29, 1856, Endenich, near Bonn, Prussia [Germany]), German Romantic composer renowned particularly for his piano music, songs (lieder), and orchestral music. Many of his best-known piano pieces were written for his wife, the pianist Clara Schumann.
Content
- Intro
- About the Author
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Introduction by the Editor
- Foreword by Schumann
- On Music
- Aphorisms
- House-Rules and Maxims for Young Musicians
- From Master Raro's, Florestan's and Eusebius' Journal of Poetry and Thought
- Articles
- On certain probably corrupted Passages in the Works of Bach, Mozart, and Beethoven
- On the Comic Spirit in Music
- Characterization of the Keys
- Surveys
- Observations
- Composers and Compositions
- Advice to Composers
- Music and Technique
- On Musicians
- Old Music
- Poach
- Haydn and Mozart
- Beethoven
- Symphonies No. 5-No. 9
- Overtures to Leonora
- Rondo, opus 129
- Weber
- Schubert
- Symphony in C major
- Piano Works
- Piano Trios
- Divertissement à la Hongroise
- Choral Works
- The Literature of Dancing
- Chopin
- An Opus 2
- Piano Works
- Piano Trio, opus 8
- Liszt
- Compositions
- Transcriptions
- Franz Liszt
- Hector Berlioz
- Symphonie Fantastique
- Overtures
- Berlioz (1838)
- Mendelssohn
- Meyerbeer and Mendelssohn (Huguenots and St. Paul)
- Works for Orchestra
- Psalm, opus 42
- Works for piano and orchestra
- Works for piano
- Chamber Works
- Mendelssohn as Conductor and Performer
- Letters of an Enthusiast (Gewandhaus Concerts 1835)
- Ignaz Moscheles
- Musical Life in Leipzig 1836-1840
- Gutenberg Festival in Leipzig
- Mendelssohn's Organ Concert
- Mendelssohn's Hymn of Praise
- A Great Singer (Schröder-Devrient)
- Rossini
- Cherubini
- Robert Franz
- Niels W. Gade
- Franz Lachner
- Karl Czerny
- Henri Vieuxtemps
- Wagner
- Brahms
- Schumann
- Sources
- Abbreviations
