Robert Schumann: The Book of Songs

by Jon W. Finson

Arguably no other nineteenth-century German composer was as literate or as finely attuned to setting verse as Robert Schumann. Jon W. Finson challenges long-standing assumptions about Schumann's Lieder, engaging traditionally held interpretations. He argues against the belief that the "Year of Song" simply reflects Schumann's personal life. Finson also devotes attention to the form and metric structure of German poetry that is almost entirely new...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674026292
• ISBN13: 9780674026292
• Release Date: January 2008
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.6" x 9.3"