The Songs of Robert Schumann by Eric SamsCall Number: MT115.S38 S3 1993
ISBN: 0253350654
Publication Date: 1993
Eric Sams' study of Schumann's 246 songs 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 Schumann's life, Sams provides a unique documentary of Schumann's 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 Schumann's songs are loved.'