John Daverio's Crossing Paths: Schubert, Schumann, and Brahms PDF

By John Daverio

In Crossing Paths, John Daverio explores the connections among paintings and lifestyles within the works of 3 giants of musical romanticism. Drawing on modern severe concept and a wide selection of nineteenth-century assets, he considers subject matters together with Schubert and Schumann's uncanny skill to awaken reminiscence in song, the intended cryptographic practices of Schumann and Brahms, and the attract of the Hungarian Gypsy type for Brahms and others within the Schumann circle. The booklet bargains a clean standpoint at the tune of those composers, together with a entire dialogue of the nineteenth century perform of cryptography, a debunking of the parable that Schumann and Brahms planted codes for "Clara Schumann" all through their works, and a spotlight to the overdue works of Schumann now not as proof of the composer's descent into insanity yet as idea for his successors. Daverio portrays the book's 3 key gamers as musical storytellers, each one in his personal means simulating the constitution of lived adventure in artworks. As an intimate examine of 3 composers that mixes cultural historical past and literary feedback with deep musicological realizing, Crossing Paths is a wealthy exploration of reminiscence, the new version of creative culture, and the price of inventive influence.

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