Frauenliebe und Leben: Chamisso's Poems and Schumann's Songs (Music in Context) - Softcover

Hallmark, Rufus

Softcover

ISBN 10: 110870025X ISBN 13: 9781108700252

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2018

Synopsis

Rufus Hallmark interprets Schumann's famously controversial song cycle in the social, literary, and musical contexts of contemporary German society.

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About the Author

Rufus Hallmark is a Professor in the Department of Music at Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University, New Jersey. He is the editor of Schumann's song cycles Dichterliebe and Frauenleibe und Leben for the new critical edition of the composer's works. He is also the author of The Genesis of Dichterliebe: A Source Study (1976), German Lieder in the Nineteenth Century (1996, revised 2010), and numerous articles on the songs of Schumann, Schubert, and Vaughan Williams, published in journals and international conference reports. In 2011 he won the American Musicological Society's Thomas Hampson Prize for work on classic song. A member of the American Musicological Society, the Schumann, Rückert, and Chamisso Gesellschäfte, he was Secretary of the Board of the American Musicological Society from 2001 to 2007.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 110870025X
• ISBN 13: 9781108700252
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 294