Robert Schumann : herald of a "new poetic age" /
"Long regarded as a quintessentially romantic figure, Schumann also has been portrayed as a profoundly tragic one: a composer who began his career as a genius and ended it as a mere talent. Daverio takes issue with this Schumann myth, arguing instead that the composer's entire creative lif...
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
1997.
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| Series: | OUP E-Books.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Schumann today
- The formation of a musico-literary sensibility
- Music as literature
- Music criticism in a new key
- Musical love letters in the higher and smaller forms
- Fierce battles and blissful songs
- The symphonic year : 1841
- The chamber music year : 1842
- The oratorio year : 1843
- Schumann's new way
- The musical dramatist
- Unbounded creativity
- The final phase
- Epilogue: A place to recall Schumann and his music
- Appendix: Translation of Jean Paul, Flegeljahre, Chapter 63 : "Titanium, Black Tourmaline masked, Ball."