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OverviewWell before she married Robert Schumann, Clara Schumann was already an internationally renowned pianist, and she concertized extensively for several decades after her husband's death. Despite being tied professionally to Robert, Clara forged her own career and played an important role in forming what we now recognize as the culture of classical music. Becoming Clara Schumann guides readers through her entire career, including performance, composition, edits to her husband's music, and teaching. Alexander Stefaniak brings together the full run of Schumann's concert programs, detailed accounts of her performances and reception, and other previously unexplored primary source material to illuminate how she positioned herself within larger currents in concert life and musical aesthetics. He reveals that she was an accomplished strategist, having played roughly 1,300 concerts across western and central Europe over the course of her six-decade career, and she shaped the canonization of her husband's music. Extraordinary for her time, Schumann earned success and prestige by crafting her own playing style, selecting and composing her own concerts, and acting as her own manager. By highlighting Schumann's navigation of her musical culture's gendered boundaries, Becoming Clara Schumann details how she cultivated her public image in order to win over audiences and embody some of her field's most ambitious aspirations for musical performance. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Alexander StefaniakPublisher: Indiana University Press Imprint: Indiana University Press Weight: 0.503kg ISBN: 9780253058287ISBN 10: 0253058287 Pages: 326 Publication Date: 02 November 2021 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Chronology Introduction 1. Schumann's Early-Career Concert Vehicles: Transcendent Interiority and the Cutting Edge of Popular Pianism 2. The Imagined Revelation of Musical Works 3. The Compositional Agency of the Revelatory Interpreter 4. Clara Schumann's 1840s Compositions and her Midcentury Persona 5. Navigating and Shaping Local Concert Scenes and Canons: Clara Schumann's 1854-56 Tours 6. Revelatory Interpretation and the Performance of Memory Epilogue Bibliography IndexReviewsThe book succeeds . . . by discussing the material world and practices of classical music. In setting forth concrete details and eschewing the hyperbolic and metaphoric, Stefaniak brings classical music back to life. -- M. Dineen * Choice * Author InformationAlexander Stefaniak is Associate Professor of Musicology at Washington University in St. Louis. He is author of Schumann's Virtuosity: Criticism, Composition, and Performance in Nineteenth-Century Germany. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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