Robert Schumann: The Man and His Music

by Alan Walker (Editor)

In a thematic approach a number of Schumann scholars bring new insights about many aspects of the life and works of the German composer Robert Schumann (1810-1856).
Alan Walker: Schumann and his background
Yonty Solomon: Solo piano music, the sonatas and fantasie
Balint Vazsonyi: Solo piano music, the piano cycles
Joseph Weingarten : Interpreting Schumann's piano music
Brian Schlotel : Schumann and the metronome
Eric Sams: The songs
Leon Plantinga : Schumann and the Neue Zeitschrift für Musik
Henry Pleasants : Schumann the critic
Robert Schumann : Aphorisms, maxims and quotations
John Gardner : The chamber music
Alfred Nieman : The concertos
Brian Schlotel: The orchestral music
Frank Cooper : Operatic and dramatic music
Louis Halsey : The choral music
Eric Sams : Schumann and the tonal analogue
Eliot Slater: Schumann's illness
The book further contains: Schumann’s family tree, biographical summary, register of persons, bibliography, complete catalogue of Schumann’s works, index to music examples and general index.
The book has illustrations.

Genres: Music

489 pages, Hardcover

First published January 25, 1972

About the author

Alan Walker’s definitive three-volume biography of Liszt, Franz Liszt, received the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in Biography and the Royal Philharmonic Society Book Award, among others. His writing has appeared in journals such as The Musical Quarterly, The Times Literary Supplement, and Times Educational Supplement. A professor emeritus at McMaster University, Walker was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1986 and was awarded the Knight’s Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Hungary in 2012.