Frauenliebe und Leben: Chamisso's Poems and Schumann's Songs

Rufus Hallmark (Rutgers University, New Jersey)

Frauenliebe und Leben: Chamisso's Poems and Schumann's Songs
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Country
United Kingdom
Published
4 December 2014
Pages
294
ISBN
9781107002302

Frauenliebe und Leben: Chamisso’s Poems and Schumann’s Songs

Rufus Hallmark (Rutgers University, New Jersey)

Rufus Hallmark’s book explores Robert Schumann’s beloved yet controversial song cycle Frauenliebe und Leben and the poems of Adelbert von Chamisso on which it is based, setting them in the context of the challenges and social expectations faced by women in early nineteenth-century Germany. Hallmark provides the most extensive English-language study of Chamisso, a poet little known today outside Germany, including a biographical sketch and excerpts from his other poetry. He examines a range of poems about women, by Chamisso and others, and discusses the reception of the poetic and musical cycles, including illustrated editions, contemporary reviews, and other musical settings. Based on new studies of Schumann’s manuscript sources and on comparative analyses of his songs and settings by Carl Loewe, Heinrich Marschner, Franz Lachner and others, Hallmark provides fresh musical and interpretive insights into each song.

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