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The Songs of Robert Schumann
About this book
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.'
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Table of Contents
- Foreword by Gerald Moore to the First Edition (1969)
- Preface to the First Edition (1969)
- SCHUMANN AS A SONG WRITER
- MOTIFS
- The Songs
- APPENDIX I : Posthumously published early songs
- APPENDIX II : Schumann’s Health
- APPENDIX III : The Sources
- INDEX A : The Songs
- INDEX B : General
- About the Author
- Copyright