The Songs of Robert Schumann

By Eric Sams

Book Overview

Eric Sams' study of Schumann's 246 songs (Faber 1961, revised 1993) - a companion volume to his The Songs of Hugo Wolf , also available in Faber Finds - remains a classic text. By providing a translation, commentary and notes for each of the songs, tracing original sources and relating recurring themes vividly to Schumann's life, Sams provides a unique documentary of Schumann's song-writing art. The book includes a foreword (to the First Edition) by the legendary accompanist, Gerald Moore, who writes: 'So felicitous is the writing that one is hardly conscious of the erudition and profound thought that have gone into the making of it . . . Eric Sams has produced a work that will be read and read again as long as Robert Schumann's songs are loved.'

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0571242200
• ISBN13: 9780571242207
• Release Date: September 2009
• Publisher: Faber and Faber
• Length: 308 Pages
• Weight: 0.89 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 0.7" x 5.3"