In recent years scholars have begun to re-evaluate the works, writings, and life of Robert Schumann (1810-1856). One of the primary issues in this ongoing re-evaluation is a reassessment of the composer's late works (roughly defined as those written after 1845). Until recently, the last eight years of Schumann's creative life and the works he composed at that time either have been ignored or critiqued under an image of an illness that had caused periodic breakdowns. Schumann's late works show how his culture and the artists communicating within that culture were transformed from the beginning to the middle of the nineteenth century. These late works, therefore, should be viewed in the context of Schumann's output as a whole and in regard to their contributions to nineteenth-century society. Schumann's contributions, specifically to the genre of the song cycle from 1849 to 1852, are among his late compositional works that still await full reconsideration. A topical study, focusing on three themes of selections from his twenty-three late cycles, will provide a critical evaluation of Schumann's compositional output in the genre of the song cycle. First, Schumann's political voice will be examined. The political events that led to the mid-nineteenth-century revolutions inspired crucial changes in European life and the art produced at that time. Schumann took an active role through his artistic contributions in which he exercised his political voice in responding to these changing events. Second, Schumann's storytelling voice will be explored. In the nineteenth century, storytellers remembered past events in order to comment on social and political issues of their own day. Schumann's storytelling voice allowed him to embrace a change in his own musical style and message in several late cycles.ird, Schumann's (relational) feminist voice will be considered. In two late cycles Schumann featured historical women: Elisabeth Kulmann (1808-1825), a Russian poet, and Mary, Queen of Scots (1542-1587). In both of these cycles, Schumann closely associated these women's lives with their work and appreciated their strength and their abilities to transcend their earthly burdens. These late song cycles not only allow us to fully appreciate a large part of Schumann's late-compositional oeuvre, but they also provide us a better understanding of the mid-century German culture from this artist's perspective. The method by which Schumann communicated with his audiencesone so different from that of the 1840-songsis as significant as the messages he hoped to communicate. Schumann's experiences leading up to 1848 had changed him as a man and as a musician. Through his late song cycles, Schumann communicated his ideas about the transformation that happened within himself, his audiences, and the German culture and proposed ways to resolve the many conflicts that existed.

In this study, the life and work of Robert Schumann was examined, with the purpose of from a source critical point of view discovering new perspectives on the composer's mental health and creative tools used in his compositions and writings. Furthermore, the study aimed to debunk common misconceptions about Robert Schumann's fate.

The purpose if this study is to make an analysis of the structural elements and stylistic characteristics in the Concerto in A Minor for Piano by the nineteenth century German composer, Robert Schumann. These elements include the composer's treatment of melody, rhythm, form, and piano idiom. This problem has been limited to a stylistic analysis of Schumann's only concerto in A minor for piano and orchestra, Op. 54. Its purpose is to make an analysis of the structural and stylistic elements in the Concerto. These include the composer's treatment of melody, rhythm, form and the piano idiom. Since the matter of harmony is not of primary importance in this work, it is not discussed here. The present study does not include a consideration of the orchestral score and its relationship to the piano; however mention of it is made in the chapter on piano idiom.

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Anlässlich des 200. Geburtstages Robert Schumanns wird über seine Aktivitäten im sächsischen Verlags- und Bibliothekswesen berichtet. Im Jahre 1834 veröffentlichte Schumann seine eigene Zeitschrift, mit dem Titel „Neue Zeitschrift für Musik“, die damals zweimal wöchentlich erschien und einen Umfang von gerade mal vier Seiten hatte. Bis zum Jahr 1846 leitet Schumann die Redaktion mehr oder weniger im Ein-Mann-Betrieb. In der Bibliotheca Albertina gab es im Rahmen einer kleinen Ausstellung bedeutende Dokumente die das Leben und Wirken des Komponisten veranschaulichen.

Anlässlich des 200. Geburtstages Robert Schumanns wird über seine Aktivitäten im sächsischen Verlags- und Bibliothekswesen berichtet. Im Jahre 1834 veröffentlichte Schumann seine eigene Zeitschrift, mit dem Titel „Neue Zeitschrift für Musik“, die damals zweimal wöchentlich erschien und einen Umfang von gerade mal vier Seiten hatte. Bis zum Jahr 1846 leitet Schumann die Redaktion mehr oder weniger im Ein-Mann-Betrieb. In der Bibliotheca Albertina gab es im Rahmen einer kleinen Ausstellung bedeutende Dokumente die das Leben und Wirken des Komponisten veranschaulichen.

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The objective of this dissertation is to review the discrepancies between Concert Sans Orchestre and Grande Sonate edited by Ernst Herttrich, Grosse Sonate No.3 Op.14 Erste and Zweite Ausgabe edited by Clara Schumann of Robert Schumann's No.3 Op.14, providing assistance for performers by clarifying inconsistencies between the three editions. Information in reference to major aspects such as notes, rhythms, metronome marking and expression signs is presented. Examples of discrepancies found throughout the first movement are discussed in Chapter 3. Suggested solutions are followed by each example.

En France, l’idée d’un piano-orchestral voit le jour durant la première moitié du XIXe siècle. Dès les premières décennies, de nombreux commentateurs reconnaissent dans l’instrument à clavier la capacité de restituer en son sein l’ensemble symphonique. Les écrits instaurent une relation étroite entre le piano et l’orchestre. Dans l’inconscient collectif, le piano ne tarde pas à devenir un « petit-orchestre complet » comme tend à le prouver le discours qui utilise ce qualificatif en tant que référence commune. Dans l’ombre de cette pensée s’élabore l’idée de la pénétration d’une « figure orchestrale » dans l’œuvre pianistique et naît alors l’idée d’un piano-orchestral. L’enjeu principal de cette thèse sera de tenter de définir le piano-orchestral français à travers un travail lié à la réception. Nous faisons en effet l’hypothèse que certaines œuvres pour piano ou certains éléments de celles-ci invitent l’auditeur à effectuer un transfert d’idées entre le piano et l’orchestre ou à reconnaître l’ensemble symphonique au clavier. Le piano-orchestral serait alors une écoute de l’œuvre pianistique. En tant que phénomène lié à laréception de l’œuvre, le piano-orchestral appartient au domaine de la verbalisation de la musique et nous avons donc choisi de l’étudier à travers le prisme du discours musical. Notre ambition étant de définir le piano-orchestral, nous avons décidéd’interroger son élaboration et ses fondements en nous concentrant sur ses prémices. Notre recherche s’étendra donc de 1835 à 1849 ; une période correspondant à la reconnaissance de l’idée jusqu’au début de sa remise en question. / In France, the idea of an orchestral piano was born during the first half of the 19th century. Since the early decades, many commentators recognized in the keyboard instrument the ability to reproduce the orchestra by itself and the writingsestablished a close relationship between the piano and the orchestra. In the collective unconscious, the piano soon became a "complete small orchestra" as the use of this qualifier as a common reference shows. In the shadow of this thought, the idea of including an “orchestral figure“ into the pianistic work was developed and thus the idea of an orchestral piano. The main challenge of this thesis will be to attempt to define the French orchestral piano through the study of its reception. Indeed, we hypothesise that some works for piano or some parts of them invite the listener to make a transfer of ideas between the piano and the orchestra or to recognize the orchestra on the keyboard. The orchestral piano would then be a listening to the pianistic work. As a phenomenon related to the reception of the work, the orchestral piano belongs to the domain of the verbalization of music and we therefore chose to study it through the prism of musical speech. Our ambition being to define the orchestral piano, we decided to question its elaboration and its foundations by focusing on its infancy. Our research will consequently extend from 1835 to 1849, a period corresponding to the recognition of the idea until the beginning of it being brought into question.

Although Robert Schumann’s late style has been the subject of several probing studies in recent years, few scholars have concentrated their attention on the chamber works composed in the autumn of 1851. Perhaps most intriguing are the opp. 105 and 121 violin sonatas, whose first movements suggest a dialogue with the eighteenth-century sonata form by preserving many of the same rhetorical and structural elements. Throughout both movements, however, Schumann uses an intricate web of tonal ambiguities, metrical dissonances, and unusual key relationships to recast the internal workings of these outwardly conventional sonata forms. As he uses these techniques to undermine important structural moments of each movement, Schumann significantly changes the overall plot of the eighteenth-century sonata form, while also demonstrating his sensitivity to the dramatic possibilities of this historical form in the middle of the nineteenth century. By discussing Schumann’s dialogue with the eighteenth-century sonata form throughout the opp. 105 and 121 violin sonatas, this study attempts to situate these works within both their historical and contemporary musical contexts, and thus considers a previously unexplored avenue toward rehabilitating the reception of Schumann’s late chamber works. / School of Music