Schumann's virtuosity : criticism, composition, and performance in nineteenth-century Germany /

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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 c...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Stefaniak, Alexander, 1983- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2016]
Subjects:
Schumann, Robert, > 1810-1856 > Influence.
Schumann, Robert, > 1810-1856.
1800-1899
Virtuosity in musical performance > Germany > History > 19th century.
Music > Germany > 19th century > Philosophy and aesthetics.
Virtuosity in musical performance > History > 19th century.
Virtuosité > Histoire > 19e siècle.
MUSIC > Genres & Styles > Classical.
MUSIC > Reference.
MUSIC > Individual Composer & Musician.
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Music > Philosophy and aesthetics.
Virtuosity in musical performance.
Germany.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Florestan among the revelers : postclassical virtuosity and Schumann's critique of pleasure
  • Florestan's wine, Clara Wieck's spirit : postclassical virtuosity and poetic interiority
  • Poetic showpieces in the cultivated salon
  • Virtuosity and the rhetoric of the sublime
  • Steps to Parnassus? : Schumann's equivocal work concept
  • Festivals of the virtuoso priesthood : collaborating with Clara Schumann and Joseph Joachim.

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