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Index
Cover Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Preface
Contents
Introduction: Schumann Today
The Biographical Challenge
Questions and Provisional Answers
Toward a Portrait of Schumann the Composer
1. The Formation of a Musico-Literary Sensibility
A Youth by No Means Lacking in Talent
Revelling in Schubert and Jean Paul
2. Music as Literature
The Budding Virtuoso
Schumann at Twenty-One
The Papillons Idea
Composing under the Spell of Paganini, Bach, and Beethoven
3. Music Criticism in a New Key
A Barrier against Convention
History, Poetry, and Music Criticism
4. Musical Love Letters in the Higher and Smaller Forms
Reflections of a Turbulent Life
1835: A Year of Important Consequences
Sad Times
Robert and Clara: United Forever
Schumann in Vienna
5. Fierce Battles and Blissful Songs
“What Should Be United—Will Be United”
Together at Last
The Year of Song: “Embarking on Completely New Paths”
The Year of Song and the “System” of Genres
6. The Symphonic Year: 1841
Settling into Marriage—and Symphonic Composition
The Symphonic Challenge
Two Symphonies, a “Symphonette” and a Phantasie
7. The Chamber Music Year: 1842
The Poetry and Prose of Artist-Marriages
Tradition, Innovation, and Social Character
Toward a Poetic Chamber Music
8. The Oratorio Year: 1843
“Absorbed in Peri Thoughts”
Das Paradies und die Peri: An Overview
9. Schumann’s New Way
Off to the World’s Wonder-Cities: The Russian Tour of 1844
Crisis
“A Completely New Manner of Composing”
“Fugenpassion”
“Symphoniaca”
“Trio Thoughts”
10. The Musical Dramatist
Toward a Literary Opera
Genoveva: From Trauerspiel to Hagiographic Drama
Manfred and the Modern Drama
Faust as Musical Novel
11. Unbounded Creativity
The Most Fruitful Year
Schumann and the Biedermeier Sensibility
Concertante Experiments
Storms Within and Without
The Formative Power
12. The Final Phase
Municipal Music Director in Dusseldorf
The Late Styles
“Do You Remember When . . . ?”
Epilogue: A Place to Recall Schumann and His Music
Appendix: Translation of Jean Paul, Flegeljahre, Chapter 63: “Titanium—Black Tourmaline Masked—Ball”
Notes
Bibliography
General Index
Index of Schumann’s Works
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