Robert Schumann: Piano Concerto

This handbook offers a comprehensive analysis of Schumann's Piano Concerto, combining music history, theory, and analysis to explore its genesis, influences, and critical reception. It also surveys piano concertos composed under its influence in the century after its completion, highlighting the work's lasting impact on Western music.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 180 pages
Publication date: 30 November 2023
Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Offering a concise introduction to one of the most important and influential piano concertos in the history of Western music, this handbook provides an example of the productive interaction of music history, music theory, and music analysis. It combines an account of the work's genesis, Schumann's earlier unsuccessful attempts to compose in the genre, and the evolving conception of the piano concerto evident in his critical writing with a detailed yet accessible analysis of each movement, which draws on the latest research into the theory and analysis of nineteenth-century instrumental forms. This handbook also reconstructs the Concerto's critical reception, performance history in centers including London, Vienna, Leipzig, and New York, and its discography, before surveying piano concertos composed under its influence in the century after its completion, including well-known concertos by Brahms, Grieg, Tchaikovsky, and Rachmaninov, as well as lesser-known music by Scharwenka, Rubinstein, Beach, Macdowell, and Stanford.

Offering a concise introduction to one of the most important and influential piano concertos in the history of Western music, this handbook provides an example of the productive interaction of music history, music theory, and music analysis. It combines an account of the work's genesis, Schumann's earlier unsuccessful attempts to compose in the genre, and the evolving conception of the piano concerto evident in his critical writing with a detailed yet accessible analysis of each movement, which draws on the latest research into the theory and analysis of nineteenth-century instrumental forms. This handbook also reconstructs the Concerto's critical reception, performance history in centers including London, Vienna, Leipzig, and New York, and its discography, before surveying piano concertos composed under its influence in the century after its completion, including well-known concertos by Brahms, Grieg, Tchaikovsky, and Rachmaninov, as well as lesser-known music by Scharwenka, Rubinstein, Beach, Macdowell, and Stanford.

Weight: 284g
Dimension: 139 x 216 x 15 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781009068291