{"product_id":"schumanns-virtuosity-criticism-composition-and-performance-in-nineteenth-century-germany-hardback-9780253021991","title":"Schumann's Virtuosity; Criticism, Composition, and Performance in Nineteenth-Century Germany (Hardback) 9780253021991","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eSchumann's Virtuosity\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eCriticism, Composition, and Performance in Nineteenth-Century Germany\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\"\u003e9780253021991\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 19 September 2016\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e304 pages, 4 b\u0026amp;w illus., 31 music exx.\u003cbr\u003e23.5 x 15.6 x 2.7 cm, 0.567 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\u003e\"This is a fascinating look into the more abstract aspects of 19th-century musical attitudes and how it has fueled long standing conversations on the value of poetic interiority over overt technical virtuosity. \"—\u003ci\u003eAmerican Music Teacher\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Among the most distinguished results of Stefaniak's study is to have reminded us of...the challenges of scholarly engagement with complex, often contradictory manifestations of lived experience.\"—\u003ci\u003eDie Musikforschung\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"\u003ci\u003eSchumann's Virtuosity\u003c\/i\u003e is thoughtfully organized and loosely chronological, with in-depth, elegant analyses of relevant examples.\"—\u003ci\u003eNineteenth-Century Music Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Stefaniak's book remains a valuable resource for musicologists, theorists, pianists, and aestheticians interested in reading about Schumann's views on virtuosity.\"—\u003ci\u003eNotes\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"It is refreshing to read a contemporary scholarly book that embraces aesthetics so forcefully.\"—\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Stefaniak's book is commendable as a rational, appealing introduction to an important aspect of nineteenth-century music praxis as explored and articulated by a major composer and leader of the early Romantic movement.\"—\u003ci\u003eJournal of the American Musicological Society\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eConsidered one of the greatest composers—and music critics—of the Romantic era, Robert Schumann (1810–1856) played an important role in shaping nineteenth-century German ideas about virtuosity. Forging his career in the decades that saw abundant public fascination with the feats and creations of virtuosos (Liszt, Paganini, and Chopin among others), Schumann engaged with instrumental virtuosity through not only his compositions and performances but also his music reviews and writings about his contemporaries. Ultimately, the discourse of virtuosity influenced the culture of Western \"art music\" well beyond the nineteenth century and into the present day. By examining previously unexplored archival sources, Alexander Stefaniak looks at the diverse approaches to virtuosity Schumann developed over the course of his career, revealing several distinct currents in nineteenth-century German virtuosity and the enduring flexibility of virtuosity discourse.\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\u003e Introduction: The Virtuosity Discourse\u003cbr\u003e Part I: Schumann and the Piano Virtuosity of the 1830s\u003cbr\u003e Part I Introduction\u003cbr\u003e 1. Florestan among the Revelers: Postclassical Virtuosity and Schumann's Critique of Pleasure\u003cbr\u003e 2. Florestan's Wine, Clara Wieck's Spirit: Postclassical Virtuosity and Poetic Interiority\u003cbr\u003e 3. Poetic Showpieces in the Cultivated Salon\u003cbr\u003e 4. Virtuosity and the Rhetoric of the Sublime\u003cbr\u003e Part II: The Virtuoso on Mount Parnassus: Schumann and the Culture of the Work Concept\u003cbr\u003e Part II Introduction\u003cbr\u003e 5. Steps to Parnassus? Schumann's Equivocal Work Concept\u003cbr\u003e 6. Festivals of the Virtuoso Priesthood: Collaborating with Clara Schumann and Joseph Joachim\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue\u003cbr\u003e List of Endnote Abbreviations\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index\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":52681773515032,"sku":"9780253021991","price":28.97,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/schumanns-virtuosity-criticism-composition-and-performance-in-nineteenth-century-germany-hardback-9780253021991","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}