Download e-book for iPad: Frauenliebe und Leben: Chamisso's Poems and Schumann's Songs by Rufus Hallmark

By Rufus Hallmark

ISBN-10: 1107002303

ISBN-13: 9781107002302

Rufus Hallmark's publication explores Robert Schumann's loved but debatable tune cycle Frauenliebe und Leben and the poems of Adelbert von Chamisso on which it really is established, atmosphere them within the context of the demanding situations and social expectancies confronted through ladies in early nineteenth-century Germany. Hallmark offers the main broad English-language learn of Chamisso, a poet little identified this present day outdoor Germany, together with a biographical caricature and excerpts from his different poetry. He examines a variety of poems approximately ladies, by means of Chamisso and others, and discusses the reception of the poetic and musical cycles, together with illustrated variations, modern experiences, and different musical settings. according to new experiences of Schumann's manuscript assets and on comparative analyses of his songs and settings by way of Carl Loewe, Heinrich Marschner, Franz Lachner and others, Hallmark presents clean musical and interpretive insights into each one song.

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