Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface vii
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. PART I. ESSAYS
6. History, Rhetoric, and the Self: Robert Schumann and Music Making in German-Speaking Europe, 1800-1860 3
7. Schumann's Homelessness 47
8. On Quotation in Schumann's Music 80
9. Schumann's Symphonic Finales 113
10. Schumann's "New Genre for the Concert Hall": Das Paradies und die Peri in the Eyes of a Contemporary 129
11. The Intentional Tourist: Romantic Irony in the Eichendorff Liederkreis of Robert Schumann 156
12. "Actually, Taken Directly from Family Life": Robert Schumann's Album fur die Jugend 171
13. PART II. LETTERS AND MEMOIRS
14. The Correspondence between Clara Wieck Schumann and Felix and Paul Mendelssohn 205
15. Reminiscences of Robert Schumann (1878) 233
16. Robert Schumann in Endenich (1899) 268
17. Schumanniana (1925) 288
18. PART III. Criticism
19. On Robert Schumann's Piano Compositions (1844) 303
20. Robert Schumann with Reference to Mendelssohn-Bartholdy and the Development of Modern Music in General (1845) 317
21. Robert Schumann (1855) 338
22. Schumanniana No. 4· The Present Musical Epoch and Robert Schumann's Position in Music History (1861) 362
23. On Schumann as Symphonist (1904-1906) 375
24. Index of Names and Compositions 385
25. List of Contributors 395