附註:Includes bibliographical references (pages 571-594) and index.
Introduction: Schumann today -- The formation of a musico-literary sensibility -- Music as literature -- Music criticism in a new key -- Musical love letters in the higher and smaller forms -- Fierce battles and blissful songs -- The symphonic year : 1841 -- The chamber music year : 1842 -- The oratorio year : 1843 -- Schumann's new way -- The musical dramatist -- Unbounded creativity -- The final phase -- Epilogue: A place to recall Schumann and his music -- Appendix: Translation of Jean Paul, Flegeljahre, Chapter 63 : "Titanium, Black Tourmaline masked, Ball."
摘要:"Long regarded as a quintessentially romantic figure, Schumann also has been portrayed as a profoundly tragic one: a composer who began his career as a genius and ended it as a mere talent. Daverio takes issue with this Schumann myth, arguing instead that the composer's entire creative life was guided by the desire to imbue music with the intellectual substance of literature. A close analysis of the interdependence among Schumann's activities as reader, diarist, critic, and musician reveals the depth of his literary sensibility. Drawing on documents only recently brought to light, the author also provides a fresh outlook on the relationship between Schumann's mental illness--which brought on an extended sanitarium stay and eventual death in 1856--and his musical creativity. Schumann's character as man and artist thus emerges in all its complexity. The book concludes with an analysis of the late works and a postlude on Schumann's influence on successors from Brahms to Berg."--From publisher's description.
