Introduction: Raising Schumann; 1. Songs of farewell; 2. The sound of legend; 3. Collecting thoughts; 4. Hearing voices; 5. On a cracked bell; 6. In search of Diotima; Appendix: chronology of Schumann's compositions, 1850–6; Bibliography.
A study of Schumann's little-known music from the 1850s and its relationship to his biography.
Laura Tunbridge is Lecturer in Music Analysis and Critical Theory at the University of Manchester.
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