Robert Schumann

Piano Concerto

Julian Horton (University of Durham)

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English

Cambridge University Press
30 November 2023

Classical music (c 1750 to c 1830)

Series: New Cambridge Music Handbooks

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 centres 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.

By: Julian Horton (University of Durham)
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
ISBN: 9781009068291
ISBN 10: 1009068296
Series: New Cambridge Music Handbooks
Pages: 180
Publication Date: 30 November 2023
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction: situating Schumann's piano concerto; 1. Rethinking the romantic piano concerto; 2. The genesis of Schumann's piano concerto; 3. Analysis (1): the first movement; 4. Analysis (2): the slow movement and Rondo Finale; 5. Reception and Legacy; Appendix I: Glossary of Technical Terms and Symbols; Appendix II.

Julian Horton is Professor of Music at Durham University. A past President of the Society for Music Analysis, he is author of Bruckner's Symphonies: Analysis, Reception and Cultural Politics (2004) and Brahms' Piano Concerto No. 2, Op. 83: Analytical and Contextual Studies (2017), and editor of The Cambridge Companion to the Symphony (2013).