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FifteenEightyFour has been discussing music with author John MacAuslan. In his fourth and final article, MacAuslan explores four very different and distinct works of Schumann. The first three articles can be read here. Within five years, Schumann wrote four great piano works connected to the fiction of E. T. A. Hoffmann. They’re strikingly different from […]
Read MoreIn the third of a series of articles, author John MacAuslan continues to explore how music speaks to people.
Read MoreIn the second in a four week series, author John MacAuslan, author of Schumann’s Music and E. T. A. Hoffmann’s Fiction, enjoys the work of Adolf von Menzel. Last week, he examined how Schumann’s Kreisleriana works. In 1838,Schumann wrote to a friend of his ‘fairly lonely path’, on which ‘a real companion in art is a […]
Read MoreOver the next four weeks, author John MacAuslan, author of Schumann’s Music and E. T. A. Hoffmann’s Fiction, will explore why music is important. One after another, Schumann wrote great piano works apparently connected to literature –Carnaval, Fantasiestücke, Kreisleriana, Nachtstücke. But how connected? I couldn’t believe the connection was primarily about programmes. Nor primarily about formal […]
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