| Author: | Eric Sams | ISBN: | 9780571280995 |
| Publisher: | Faber & Faber | Publication: | October 6, 2011 |
| Imprint: | Faber & Faber | Language: | English |
| Author: | Eric Sams |
| ISBN: | 9780571280995 |
| Publisher: | Faber & Faber |
| Publication: | October 6, 2011 |
| Imprint: | Faber & Faber |
| Language: | English |
Eric Sams' study of Schumann's 246 songs (Faber 1961, revised 1993) - a companion volume to his The Songs of Hugo Wolf, also available in Faber Finds - remains a classic text. By providing a translation, commentary and notes for each of the songs, tracing original sources and relating recurring themes vividly to Schumann's life, Sams provides a unique documentary of Schumann's song-writing art.
The book includes a foreword (to the First Edition) by the legendary accompanist, Gerald Moore,
who writes:
'So felicitous is the writing that one is hardly conscious of the erudition and profound thought that have gone into the making of it . . . Eric Sams has produced a work that will be read and read again as long as Robert Schumann's songs are loved.'
Eric Sams' study of Schumann's 246 songs (Faber 1961, revised 1993) - a companion volume to his The Songs of Hugo Wolf, also available in Faber Finds - remains a classic text. By providing a translation, commentary and notes for each of the songs, tracing original sources and relating recurring themes vividly to Schumann's life, Sams provides a unique documentary of Schumann's song-writing art.
The book includes a foreword (to the First Edition) by the legendary accompanist, Gerald Moore,
who writes:
'So felicitous is the writing that one is hardly conscious of the erudition and profound thought that have gone into the making of it . . . Eric Sams has produced a work that will be read and read again as long as Robert Schumann's songs are loved.'
