Contents
Preface
List of Abbreviations
1 Childhood and Youth
2 University Years
3 Schumann and Literature
4 Commitment to Music
5 Schumann's Compositions Prior to 1834
6 The League of David
7 Courtship and Marriage
8 The Piano Compositions, 1834-39
9 Married Life in Leipzig
10 The Compositions, 1840-44
11 The Years in Dresden
12 Schumann's Dramatic Works
13 The Years in Düsseldorf
14 The Compositions, 1845-54
15 Endenich
Epilogue "The Poet Speaks": Schumann and Childhood
Appendices:
Calendar
List of Works
Personalia
Select Bibliography
Index
Eric Frederick Jensen taught at Denison University and the University of Illinois. He has published widely on 19th- and early 20th-century music, including in The Journal of Musicology, The Musical Quarterly, The Musical Times, and Music & Letters. His book, Walls of Circumstance, examined the work of eleven little known 19th-century composers.
"The reader is left not only educated musically, but saddened,
mesmerized, horrified, and disgusted by the treatment Schumann
received.... It's a tale of latent feminism, music history, and
mental illness all wrapped into one. There's plenty of technical
description for the musician reader, complete with musical examples
that can be played or sung. There's plenty more for someone who
can't read music but likes a rich life story of a complex human
being who
happened to be a musician."--Boston Globe
"The presentation is excellent, aimed at the intelligent
music-lover, but equally it is important in many ways to the
established specialist in 19th century Romanticism. Anyone looking
for their first book on Schumann could not do better than obtain
this title, which will stand them in good stead for the rest of
their lives." --Musical Opinion
"A valuable addition to Schumann research at the turn of the
millennium. Best of all, it is a readable, thoughtful account,
especially concerning the composer's relationships with his wife,
Clara; his contemporaries; and the surrounding musical
community...Recommended." --Choice
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