...Ji-Young Kim In the 1830s, Robert Schumann wrote Impromptus on a Romance by Clara Wieck (op. 5), a set of variations on the theme from Wieck’s Romance variée (op. 3). In the 1850s, Clara Schumann wrote variations (op. 20) on an “Albumblatt” from Robert Schumann’s Bunte Blätter (op. 99), which...

...Sonja Wermager In January 1851, Robert Schumann wrote to Richard Pohl with an idea: “I would like to write an oratorio. Perhaps you would lend your hand? I thought of Luther.” Pohl enthusiastically agreed to write the libretto and the two began discussing their ideas for a musical work depicting...

..., learn more than they know about themselves. Romantic precursors of modernist experiments in fiction—incipient cases of narrative unreliability—arise in the works of, among others, Jean Paul Richter and Heinrich Heine, two of Robert Schumann's favorite writers. In his early solo piano cycle, Papillons...

... the recurring Ro- 10John Daverio, Robert Schumann: Herald of a New Po- etic Age (New York: Oxford University Press, 1997), 215. 11The existence of two versions of op. 39 the 1842 edi- tion, starting with Der frohe Wandersmann, and a sec- ond edition from 1850, which replaced this song with the first In der...

...Holly Watkins Robert Schumann's Blumenstück , op. 19, a short piano piece dating from 1839, is generally not included among the composer's more poetically inspired or formally adventurous pieces. Thanks in part to Schumann's own disparaging remarks about the piece, Blumenstück , like...

... Schumann Johann Sebastian Bach Christian Friedrich Michaelis Immanuel Kant 19TH CENTURY MUSIC Time and the Keyboard Fugue KEITH CHAPIN In an 1837 review of Felix Mendelssohn s Preludes and Fugues, op. 35, Robert Schumann called his readers attention to slight but signi cant differences in fugal...

... context, Maler Nolten: Novelle in zwei Theilen (1832). Thereafter I follow Mörike's Mägdlein from her poetic beginnings to two of her best-known musical reappearances: Robert Schumann's “Das verlassne Mägdelein” (op. 64, no. 2) of 1847 and the work it inspired forty years later, Hugo Wolf's 1888 “Das...