Schumann''s Virtuosity - Criticism, Composition, and Performance in Nineteenth-Century Germany

Informationen zum Autor Alexander Stefaniak Klappentext Alexander Stefaniak is Assistant Professor of Musicology at Washington University in Saint Louis. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments Introduction: The Virtuosity Discourse Part I: Schumann and the Piano Virtuosity of the 1830s Part I Introduction 1. Florestan among the Revelers: Postclassical Virtuosity and Schumann's Critique of Pleasure 2. Florestan's Wine, Clara Wieck's Spirit: Postclassical Virtuosity and Poetic Interiority 3. Poetic Showpieces in the Cultivated Salon 4. Virtuosity and the Rhetoric of the Sublime Part II: The Virtuoso on Mount Parnassus: Schumann and the Culture of the Work Concept Part II Introduction 5. Steps to Parnassus? Schumann's Equivocal Work Concept 6. Festivals of the Virtuoso Priesthood: Collaborating with Clara Schumann and Joseph Joachim Epilogue List of Endnote Abbreviations Notes Bibliography Index

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• Authors: Alexander Stefaniak
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2016
• EAN: 9780253021991
• ISBN: 978-0-253-02199-1
• No. of pages: 304
• Series: Indiana University Press (IPS)
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Music > Music history