"Ronald Taylor has written the first full-length account of the life, times and work of Robert Schumann for many years.

In addition to such major set pieces as "Florestan's Shrovetide Oration," the essays on Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique and Schubert's Symphony in C Major, and the imaginative and literate "The Editor's Ball," this volume offers discerning ...

"This second edition of Schumann has been published to coincide with the bicentenary of his birth ... A great deal of new information about Schumann has appeared in the decade since the first edition was published."--Preface.

Finson challenges assumptions about Schumann’s Lieder, engaging traditionally held interpretations. Arranged in part thematically, rather than by strict compositional chronology, this book speaks to the heart of Schumann’s music.

Reprint of the original, first published in 1871.

This absorbing and award-winning biography tells the story of the tragedies and triumphs of Clara Wieck Schumann (1819-1896)--at once artist, composer, editor, teacher, wife, and mother of eight children.

This book explores the multi-movement Leipzig chamber works composed by Robert Schumann (1810-56).

This book presents a theory of metrical conflict and applies it to the music of Schumann, thereby placing the composer's distinctive metrical style in full focus.