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Clara and Robert Schumann in Context


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Illuminating the shared world of Clara and Robert Schumann, this volume takes a renewed look at the Schumanns and reconsiders them both as individual artists and as a couple who each charted their trajectories with the other in mind. It focuses on key aspects of their artistic and cultural environments amid the creative and political ferment of nineteenth-century Germany and traces their critical reception from their own time to the present day. The topics range from personal and professional relationships to their socio-cultural environment and their influence on subsequent generations of musicians, giving fresh perspectives on established themes and introducing new material and sources particularly in relation to Clara. The book broadens and re-evaluates existing understandings of the Schumanns and makes scholarship currently better known in the German-speaking sphere accessible to English-language readers.

Table of Contents:
List of figures; List of tables ; Notes on Contributors; Preface; Part I. Family and Friends: 1. Family relationships: Robert Sonja Wermager; 2. Family relationships: Clara Beatrix Borchard; 3. The marriage Janina Klassen; 4. The Schumann children and household George Rousseau; 5. Albums and memorabilia Carolyn Carrier; 6. Support networks Meebae Lee; 7. The Mendelssohns Thomas Schmidt; 8. The Joachims Robert Eshbach; 9. Johannes Brahms Valerie Goertzen; Part II. Professional Training and Artistic Influences: 10. Education Catherine Mayes; 11. Compositional methods Julie Hedges Brown; 12. Musical dialogues: Quotations and Allusions R. Larry Todd; 13. The Schumanns and Romantic literature Susan Youens; Part III. Geographies: 14. Leipzig and Zwickau Ute Scholz; 15. Dresden and Düsseldorf Michael Musgrave; 16. Frankfurt and Baden-Baden Amanda Lalonde; 17. Vienna and Berlin Katrin Reyersbach; 18. Paris and London Susan Wollenberg; Part IV. Performance and Concert Culture: 19. Clara's perspectives on other virtuosas Roe-Min Kok; 20. Clara's concert tours as labour Michael Kinney; 21. Patrons and patronage Emily Green; 22. Soirées and private performances Lukas Beck; 23. Singers Jennifer Ronyak; 24. Instrumentalists and ensembles Angela Carone; 25. Awards and professional memberships Jacques Dupuis; 26. Pianos Jean-Jacques Dünki; 27. Performance and virtuosity Alexander Stefaniak; 28. The art of concert programming Natasha Loges; Part V. Reception and Legacy: 29. The Schumanns' influence on nineteenth-century music Nicholas Marston; 30. Biographical traditions David Ferris; 31. Robert's health issues Saman Arfaie; 32. Schumann iconography April Prince; 33. Music journalism and criticism Leon Plantinga; 34. Clara as teacher Annkatrin Babbe; 35. Editing and publishing Thomas Synofzik; 36. Theory and analysis Nicole Grimes; 37. The Schumanns on disc Joe Davies; 38. Artistic responses to the Schumanns Laura Tunbridge; Glossary; Further reading; Index.

About the Author :
Joe Davies is a faculty member in the Arts and Humanities Division at New York University Abu Dhabi. He is author of The Gothic Imagination in the Music of Franz Schubert (2024), editor of Clara Schumann Studies (2021), and co-editor of Drama in the Music of Franz Schubert (2019). Roe-Min Kok is Professor of Music at McGill University. She is editor of Schumann in The Early Romantic Composers Series (2019), Neue Robert Schumann Ausgabe III/1/4: Klavierwerke 4 (2016) and Rethinking Schumann (2011), and has published widely on the Schumanns, nineteenth-century German culture, and music colonialism in global history.


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  • ISBN-13: 9781108834278
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN-10: 1108834272
  • Publisher Date: 28 Feb 2026


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