Description: A study on the influence which the German novelist Jean Paul Friedrich Richter had upon Robert Schumann's music.
Review Quotes: Erika Reiman presents a systematic account of the structural, stylistic, and generic parallels between Schumann's keyboard music of the 1830s and Jean Paul's fictional works, which Schumann first read as a teenager and turned to repeatedly for inspiration throughout the course of his creative life. The most significant connections between composer and novelist are almost certainly to be found at the deeper, structural level, and now, for the first time, we have a thorough exploration of these connections.--John Daverio, Professor of Music, Boston University