Perrey Beate (ed.) The Cambridge companion to Schumann

Cambridge University Press, 2007. — 317 p.: ill.:musical examples. — (Cambridge companions to music).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 periodContexts:
Introduction to Schumann: life stories by Beate Perrey
Life and literature, poetry and philosophy: Robert Schumann's aesthetics of music byUlrich Tadday
Schumann's heroes: Schubert, Beethoven, Bach by Nicholas Marston
Works:
The piano music I: a world of images by John Daverio
The piano music II: afterimages by Laura Tunbridge
Why sing? Lieder and song cycles by Jonathan Dunsby
The chamber music by Linda Roesner
Novel symphonies and dramatic overtures by Scott Burnham
The concertos by Joseph Kerman
Dramatic stage and choral works by Liz Paley
Reception:
Schumann in his time and since Reinhard Kapp
The compositional reception of Schumann's music since 1950 Jörn Peter Hiekel
Songs of dawn and dusk: coming to terms with the late music John Daverio.