Becoming Clara Schumann : performance strategies and aesthetics in the culture of the musical canon /

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"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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Stefaniak, Alexander, 1983- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, [2021]
Subjects:
Schumann, Clara, > 1819-1896.
Schumann, Clara, > 1819-1896 > Performances.
Schumann, Clara, > 1819-1896 > Appreciation.
1800-1899
Piano > Performance > Germany > History > 19th century.
Piano > Exécution > Allemagne > Histoire > 19e siècle.
MUSIC / Individual Composer & Musician
Art appreciation.
Performances.
Piano > Performance.
Germany.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Schumann's early-career concert vehicles : transcendent interiority and the cutting edge of popular pianism
  • The imagined revelation fo musical works
  • The compositional agency of the revelatory interpreter
  • Clara Schuman's 1840 compositions and her midcentury persona
  • Navigating and shaping local concert scenes and canons : Clara Schumann's 1854-1856 tours
  • Revelatory interpretation and the performance of memory
  • Epilogue.

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