Schumann S Virtuosity

Author : Alexander Stefaniak
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2016-09-19
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780253022097

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Schumann's Virtuosity by Alexander Stefaniak Pdf

“A valuable resource for musicologists, theorists, pianists, and aestheticians interested in reading about Schumann’s views on virtuosity.” —Notes Considered one of the greatest composers—and music critics—of the Romantic era, Robert Schumann (1810–1856) played an important role in shaping nineteenth-century German ideas about virtuosity. Forging his career in the decades that saw abundant public fascination with the feats and creations of virtuosos (Liszt, Paganini, and Chopin among others), Schumann engaged with instrumental virtuosity through not only his compositions and performances but also his music reviews and writings about his contemporaries. Ultimately, the discourse of virtuosity influenced the culture of Western “art music” well beyond the nineteenth century and into the present day. By examining previously unexplored archival sources, Alexander Stefaniak looks at the diverse approaches to virtuosity Schumann developed over the course of his career, revealing several distinct currents in nineteenth-century German virtuosity and the enduring flexibility of virtuosity discourse.

Author : Susanna Reich
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0618551603

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Clara Schumann by Susanna Reich Pdf

Describes the life of the German pianist and composer who made her professional debut at age nine and who devoted her life to music and to her family.

Author : Robert Schumann
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2012-11-13
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780486143095

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Schumann on Music by Robert Schumann Pdf

Includes 61 important critical pieces Schumann wrote for the Neue Zeitschrift fur Musik, 1834–1844. Perceptive evaluations of Beethoven, Chopin, Schubert, other giants; also Spohr, Moscheles, Field, other minor masters. Annotated.

Author : Zarko Cvejić
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2016-06-22
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781443896825

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The Virtuoso as Subject by Zarko Cvejić Pdf

This book offers a novel interpretation of the sudden and steep decline of instrumental virtuosity in its critical reception between c. 1815 and c. 1850, documenting it with a large number of examples from Europe’s leading music periodicals at the time. The increasingly hostile critical reception of instrumental virtuosity during this period is interpreted from the perspective of contemporary aesthetics and philosophical conceptions of human subjectivity; the book’s main thesis is that virtuosity qua irreducibly bodily performance generated so much hostility because it was deemed incompatible with, and even threatening to, the new Romantic philosophical conception of music as a radically disembodied, abstract, autonomous art and, moreover, a symbol or model – if only a utopian one – of a similarly autonomous and free human subject, whose freedom and autonomy seemed increasingly untenable in the economic and political context of post-Napoleonic Europe. That is why music, newly reconceived as radically abstract and autonomous, plays such an important part in the philosophy of early German Romantics such as E. T. A. Hoffmann, Schelling, and Schopenhauer, with their growing misgivings about the very possibility of human freedom, and not so much in the preceding generation of thinkers, such as Kant and Hegel, who still believed in the (transcendentally) free subject of the Enlightenment. For the early German Romantics, music becomes a model of human freedom, if freedom could exist. By contrast, virtuosity, irredeemably moored in the perishable human body, ephemeral, and beholden to such base motives as making money and gaining fame, is not only incompatible with music thus conceived, but also threatens to expose it as an illusion, in other words, as irreducibly corporeal, and, by extension, the human subject it was meant to symbolise as likewise an illusion. Only with that in mind, may we begin to understand the hostility of some early to mid-19th-century critics to instrumental virtuosity, which sometimes reached truly bizarre proportions. In order to accomplish this, the book looks at contemporary aesthetics and philosophy, the contemporary reception of virtuosity in performance and composition, and the impact of 19th-century gender ideology on the reception of some leading virtuosi, male and female alike.

Author : Robert Schumann
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1983-01-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 0520046854

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On Music and Musicians by Robert Schumann Pdf

Reviews of specific compositions are accompanied by Schumann's articles and epigrams on all aspects of music

Author : Alexander Stefaniak
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2021-11-02
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780253058263

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Becoming Clara Schumann by Alexander Stefaniak Pdf

Well before she married Robert Schumann, Clara Schumann was already an internationally renowned pianist, and she concertized extensively for several decades after her husband's death. Despite being tied professionally to Robert, Clara forged her own career and played an important role in forming what we now recognize as the culture of classical music. Becoming Clara Schumann guides readers through her entire career, including performance, composition, edits to her husband's music, and teaching. Alexander Stefaniak brings together the full run of Schumann's concert programs, detailed accounts of her performances and reception, and other previously unexplored primary source material to illuminate how she positioned herself within larger currents in concert life and musical aesthetics. He reveals that she was an accomplished strategist, having played roughly 1,300 concerts across western and central Europe over the course of her six-decade career, and she shaped the canonization of her husband's music. Extraordinary for her time, Schumann earned success and prestige by crafting her own playing style, selecting and composing her own concerts, and acting as her own manager. By highlighting Schumann's navigation of her musical culture's gendered boundaries, Becoming Clara Schumann details how she cultivated her public image in order to win over audiences and embody some of her field's most ambitious aspirations for musical performance.

Author : Robert Doran
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 447 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781580469395

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Liszt and Virtuosity by Robert Doran Pdf

A new and wide-ranging collection of essays by leading international scholars, exploring the concept and practices of virtuosity in Franz Liszt and his contemporaries.

Author : Claudia Macdonald
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2023-05-09
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781000938821

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Robert Schumann and the Piano Concerto by Claudia Macdonald Pdf

Robert Schumann was a unique personality in 19th century music: a celebrated music critic and champion of new composers as well as a talented performer and composer himself, he did much to modernize the literature and performance style for the piano. This book covers the key period of c. 1815-55, exploring how the generation that came after Beethoven was central in reshaping and refining the conception of the concerto style, and particularly the piano concerto. It relates Schumann's own compositional development to his musical environment, recreating the exciting milieu in which Schumann and his contemporaries lived and worked. Written in scholarly, but non-technical language, Robert Schumann and the Development of the Piano Concerto will appeal to college and conservatory teachers and students, as well as music connoisseurs. Also includes 60 musical examples.

Author : Julian Horton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2023-11-30
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781316512586

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Robert Schumann: Piano Concerto by Julian Horton Pdf

Offers an introduction to one of the most important and influential piano concertos in the history of Western music. It combines an account of the work's genesis with a detailed yet accessible analysis of each movement and new research into its reception and performance history.

Author : Dana Andrew Gooley
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780190633585

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Fantasies of Improvisation by Dana Andrew Gooley Pdf

The first history of keyboard improvisation in European music from the time of Beethoven through the later nineteenth century, Dana Gooley's Free Play: Fantasies of Improvisation in Nineteenth-Century Music describes the motives, intentions, and musical styles of the nineteenth century's leading improvisers, and traces the evolution of the performance practice into a glorified ideal.

Author : Robert Schumann
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1965-01-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1404703039

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Musical World of Robert Schumann, Schumann on Music by Robert Schumann Pdf

Author : Mark Rowe
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781351563925

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Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst: Virtuoso Violinist by Mark Rowe Pdf

From 1840-57, Heinrich Ernst was one of the most famous and significant European musicians, and performed on stage, often many times, with Berlioz, Mendelssohn, Chopin, Liszt, Wagner, Alkan, Clara Schumann, and Joachim. It is a sign of his importance that, in 1863, Brahms gave two public performances in Vienna of his own and Ernst's music to raise money for the now mortally ill violinist. Berlioz described Ernst as 'one of the artists whom I love the most, and with whose talent I am most sympathetique', while Joachim was in no doubt that Ernst was 'the greatest violinist I ever heard; he towered above the others'. Many felt that he surpassed the expressive and technical achievements of Paganini, but Ernst, unlike his great predecessor, was also a tireless champion of public chamber music, and did more than any other early nineteenth-century violinist to make Beethoven's late quartets widely known and appreciated. Ernst was not only a great virtuoso but also an accomplished composer. He wrote two of the most popular pieces of the nineteenth century - the Elegy and the Carnival of Venice - and he is best known today for two solo pieces which represent the ne plus ultra of technical difficulty: the transcription of Schubert's Erlking, and the sixth of his Polyphonic Studies, the variations on The Last Rose of Summer. Perhaps he made his greatest contribution to music through his influence on Liszt's outstanding masterpiece, the B minor piano sonata. In 1849, Liszt conducted Ernst playing his own Concerto Pathque, a substantial single-movement work, in altered sonata form, using thematic transformation. Soon after this performance, Liszt wrote his Grosses Konzertsolo (1849-50), his first extended single-movement work, using altered sonata form, and thematic transformation. This is now universally acknowledged to be the immediate forerunner of the sonata, which refines and develops all these techniques. Liszt made his debt clear when, three years after completi

Author : Roe-Min Kok,Laura Tunbridge
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2011-01-19
Category : Music
ISBN : 0199813302

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Rethinking Schumann by Roe-Min Kok,Laura Tunbridge Pdf

A provocative re-examination of a major romantic composer, Rethinking Schumann provides fresh approaches to Schumann's oeuvre and its reception from the perspectives of literature, visual arts, cultural history, performance studies, dance, and film. Traditionally, research has focused on biographical links between the composer and his music, encouraging the assumption that Schumann was solitary, divorced from reality, and frequently associated with "untimeliness." These eighteen new essays argue from a multitude of perspectives that Schumann was in fact very much a man of his time, informed not only by music but also the culture and society around him. The book further reveals that the composer's reputation has been shaped significantly by, for example, changes in attitudes towards German romanticism and its history, and recent developments in musical scholarship and performance. Rethinking Schumann takes into account cultural and social-institutional frameworks, engages with ongoing and new issues of reception and historiography, and offers fresh music-analytical insights. As a whole, the essays assemble a portrait of the artist that reflects the different ways in which Schumann has been understood and misunderstood over the past two hundred years. The volume is, in short, a timely reassessment of this ultimately non-untimely figure's legacy. While the essays consider some of Schumann's most famous music (Dichterliebe, Kinderszenen and the Piano Quintet), they also provide crucial adjustment to judgments against the composer's later works by explaining their musical features not as the result of diminishing creative capacity but as reflections of the political and social situations of mid-nineteenth-century German culture and technological developments. Schumann is revealed to have been a musician engaged by and responsive to his surroundings, whose reputation was formed to a great extent by popular culture, both in his own lifetime as he responded to particular poets and painters, and later, as his life and works were responded to by subsequent generations.

Author : Joe Davies
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2021-12-02
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781108489843

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Clara Schumann Studies by Joe Davies Pdf

Develops a holistic and gender-aware understanding of Clara Schumann as pianist, composer and teacher in nineteenth-century Germany.

Author : Robert Schumann
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 12 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2017-12-04
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781528781145

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Arabeske - A Score for Solo Piano Op.18 by Robert Schumann Pdf

Featuring large, clear note heads and wide margins, this edition is perfect for studying and following the music. Robert Schumann (1810 – 1856) was a seminal German composer and esteemed music critic. When his piano teacher assured him that the could be the most accomplished piano virtuoso in Europe, he dedicated his energies to this end. However, a severe injury to his hand meant that his dream could never be realised. Instead, Schumann focused on composing. He chiefly wrote compositions for the piano until 1840, at which time he began branching out, composing for orchestra and writing symphonies, operas, and other choral and chamber pieces. Some of his most famous compositions include: “Kinderszenen”, “Album für die Jugend”, “Blumenstück”, and the “Sonatas” and “Albumblätter”. Today, Schumann is generally considered to have been one of the most important composers during the Romantic era. Classic Music Collection constitutes an extensive library of the most well-known and universally-enjoyed works of classical music ever composed, reproduced from authoritative editions for the enjoyment of musicians and music students the world over.