Schumann's Piano Cycles and the Novels of Jean Paul

by Erika Reiman

A study on the influence which the German novelist Jean Paul Friedrich Richter had upon Robert Schumann's music.

Robert Schumann frequently expressed his deep admiration for the novels of Jean Paul Friedrich Richter, the late-eighteenth-century German novelist, essayist, and satirist. Schumann imitated Jean Paul's prose style in his own fiction and music criticism, and said once that he learned more counterpoint from Jean Paul than from my...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 158046145X
• ISBN13: 9781580461450
• Release Date: March 2004
• Publisher: University of Rochester Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.2"