Eric Sams study of Schumanns 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 Schumanns life; Sams provides a unique documentary of Schumanns 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 Schumanns songs are loved.
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