A provocative re-examination of a major romantic composer,
Rethinking Schumann provides fresh approaches to Schumann's oeuvre
and its reception from the perspectives of literature, visual arts,
cultural history, performance studies, dance, and film.
Traditionally, research has focused on biographical links between
the composer and his music, encouraging the assumption that
Schumann was solitary, divorced from reality, and frequently
associated with "untimeliness." These eighteen new essays argue
from a multitude of perspectives that Schumann was in fact very
much a man of his time, informed not only by music but also the
culture and society around him. The book further reveals that the
composer's reputation has been shaped significantly by, for
example, changes in attitudes towards German romanticism and its
history, and recent developments in musical scholarship and
performance. Rethinking Schumann takes into account cultural and
social-institutional frameworks, engages with ongoing and new
issues of reception and historiography, and offers fresh
music-analytical insights. As a whole, the essays assemble a
portrait of the artist that reflects the different ways in which
Schumann has been understood and misunderstood over the past two
hundred years. The volume is, in short, a timely reassessment of
this ultimately non-untimely figure's legacy.
While the essays consider some of Schumann's most famous music
(Dichterliebe, Kinderszenen and the Piano Quintet), they also
provide crucial adjustment to judgments against the composer's
later works by explaining their musical features not as the result
of diminishing creative capacity but as reflections of the
political and social situations of mid-nineteenth-century German
culture and technological developments. Schumann is revealed to
have been a musician engaged by and responsive to his surroundings,
whose reputation was formed to a great extent by popular culture,
both in his own lifetime as he responded to particular poets and
painters, and later, as his life and works were responded to by
subsequent generations.
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