{"product_id":"becoming-clara-schumann-performance-strategies-and-aesthetics-in-the-culture-of-the-musical-canon-hardback-9780253058294","title":"Becoming Clara Schumann; Performance Strategies and Aesthetics in the Culture of the Musical Canon (Hardback) 9780253058294","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eBecoming Clara Schumann\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003ePerformance Strategies and Aesthetics in the Culture of the Musical Canon\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eAlexander Stefaniak (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780253058294\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 2 November 2021\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e326 pages, 1 b\u0026amp;w illus, 6 b\u0026amp;w tables, 32 printed music items - 1 Illustrations, black and white - 32 Printed music items - 6 Tables, black and white\u003cbr\u003e23.5 x 15.6 x 2.7 cm, 0.68 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book succeeds . . . by discussing the material world and practices of classical music. In setting forth concrete details and eschewing the hyperbolic and metaphoric, Stefaniak brings classical music back to life.\u003c\/p\u003e - M. Dineen (Choice) \u003cp\u003eEngaging eloquently with wide-ranging scholarship, pluralistic primary source materials, concert touring strategies, and programming and compositional practices, Stefaniak offers a fascinating, holistic look into Clara Schumann's canonical legacy.\u003c\/p\u003e - April Prince (Notes) \u003cp\u003e[Stefaniak] weaves a complex dialogue among voices....[and] prefers a multidisciplinary approach that interrogates social history, the history of structures and ideas. ... [His] extensive discussion relies on often unpublished or little-known sources, as well as on sources that have been interpreted in different ways: a vast body of writing that makes the volume especially precious, even beyond the specific interest in Clara Schumann.\u003c\/p\u003e - Mariateresa Storino\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWell before she married Robert Schumann, Clara Schumann was already an internationally renowned pianist, and she concertized extensively for several decades after her husband's death. Despite being tied professionally to Robert, Clara forged her own career and played an important role in forming what we now recognize as the culture of classical music.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eBecoming Clara Schumann\u003c\/i\u003e guides readers through her entire career, including performance, composition, edits to her husband's music, and teaching. Alexander Stefaniak brings together the full run of Schumann's concert programs, detailed accounts of her performances and reception, and other previously unexplored primary source material to illuminate how she positioned herself within larger currents in concert life and musical aesthetics. He reveals that she was an accomplished strategist, having played roughly 1,300 concerts across western and central Europe over the course of her six-decade career, and she shaped the canonization of her husband's music. Extraordinary for her time, Schumann earned success and prestige by crafting her own playing style, selecting and composing her own concerts, and acting as her own manager.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBy highlighting Schumann's navigation of her musical culture's gendered boundaries, \u003ci\u003eBecoming Clara Schumann\u003c\/i\u003e details how she cultivated her public image in order to win over audiences and embody some of her field's most ambitious aspirations for musical performance.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003eChronology\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e1. Schumann's Early-Career Concert Vehicles: Transcendent Interiority and the Cutting Edge of Popular Pianism\u003cbr\u003e2. The Imagined Revelation of Musical Works\u003cbr\u003e3. The Compositional Agency of the Revelatory Interpreter\u003cbr\u003e4. Clara Schumann's 1840s Compositions and her Midcentury Persona\u003cbr\u003e5. Navigating and Shaping Local Concert Scenes and Canons: Clara Schumann's 1854-56 Tours\u003cbr\u003e6. Revelatory Interpretation and the Performance of Memory\u003cbr\u003eEpilogue\u003cbr\u003eBibliography\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Indiana University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52525362086168,"sku":"9780253058294","price":59.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/becoming-clara-schumann-performance-strategies-and-aesthetics-in-the-culture-of-the-musical-canon-hardback-9780253058294","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}