He is also the author of The Genesis of Schumann’s Dichterliebe: A Source Study (1976), German Lieder in the Nineteenth Century (1996, rev. He is the editor of Schumann’s song cycles Dichterliebe and Frauenliebe und Leben for the new critical edition of the composer’s works. Rufus hallmark is Professor of Music at the Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers The State University of New Jersey. Based on new studies of Schumann’s manuscript sources and on comparative analyses of his songs and settings by Carl Loewe, Heinrich Marschner, Franz Lachner, and others, Hallmark provides fresh musical and interpretive insights into each song. He examines a range of poems about women, by Chamisso and others, and discusses the reception of the poetic and musical cycles, including illustrated editions, contemporary reviews, and other musical settings.
Hallmark provides the most extensive English-language study of Chamisso, a poet little known today outside Germany, including a biographical sketch and excerpts from his other poetry. Rufus Hallmark’s book explores Robert Schumann’s beloved yet controversial song cycle Frauenliebe und Leben and the poems of Adelbert von Chamisso on which it is based, setting them in the context of the challenges and social expectations faced by women in early nineteenth-century Germany. Poetry in the original German and in English translation. Chronological listing of nineteenth-century Frauenliebe und Leben settingsĪppendix 2. Schumann's cycle: analysis and comparative interpretationĪppendix 1. The musical reception of Frauenliebe und LebenĦ. Chamisso's poems about women: a literary context for Frauenliebe und Leben Adelbert von Chamisso: a sketch of his life and worksģ. Women in early nineteenth-century Germany: societal conventions, ideology, relationships