Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
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
Index

About the Author

Alexander 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.

Reviews

The 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) Engaging eloquently with wide-ranging scholarship, pluralistic primary source materials, concert touring strategies, and programming and compositional practices, Stefaniak offers a fascinating, holistic look into Clara Schumann's canonical legacy. - April Prince (Notes) [Stefaniak] weaves a complex dialogue among voices....[and] prefers a multidisciplinary approach that interrogates social history, the history of structures and ideas. ... [His] extensive discussion relies on often unpublished or little-known sources, as well as on sources that have been interpreted in different ways: a vast body of writing that makes the volume especially precious, even beyond the specific interest in Clara Schumann. - Mariateresa Storino