Schumannesque

A "Schumannesque" is written closely on the lines of Schumann's

Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and Compositions Rupert Hughes 1914

I don't know about you, but to me, that combination of the fullness of life and the nihilism of the abyss seems awfully Schumannesque.

Archive 2006-09-01 Matthew Guerrieri 2006

I don't know about you, but to me, that combination of the fullness of life and the nihilism of the abyss seems awfully Schumannesque.

Been there, done that Matthew Guerrieri 2006

That's a fantastic micro-dispute to consider, since Eisler, far from undertaking a wholesale genre-stripping or programmatic levelling of still-too-high and auratic elegiac verse, instead so virtuosically runs Schubertian and Schumannesque lieder, French chanson, and Schönbergian twelve-tone composition in and out of one another, that it is hard to miss the settings 'recognizably Modernist tour de force of newly-achieved form and voice.

Intervention & Commitment Forever!: Shelley in 1819, Shelley in Brecht, Shelley in Adorno, Shelley in Benjamin 2001

The "Étude" is a monotonous study in a somewhat Schumannesque manner, with a graceful finish.

Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and Compositions Rupert Hughes 1914

His piano pieces are elegantly written, -- somewhat Schumannesque in point of style, although not nearly so rugged and much more fluent, -- and the pieces on the program below give a sufficiently fair idea of the general features of his style in this department.

The Masters and their Music A series of illustrative programs with biographical, esthetical, and critical annotations 1874

Andrius Zlabys joined Mr. Kremer, playing an offstage piano, the music first grew faintly Schumannesque, then wafted into double-stopped violin figures that suggested Strauss waltzes.

NYT > Home Page By ALLAN KOZINN 2011

Andrius Zlabys joined Mr. Kremer, playing an offstage piano, the music first grew faintly Schumannesque, then wafted into double-stopped violin figures that suggested Strauss waltzes.

NYT > Home Page By ALLAN KOZINN 2011

The sonata opens with a bold, striding subject almost Schumannesque in its vigor and richly textured writing.

Violinist.com 2009

Imagine this: Brahms 'wistful, long-lined lyricism years before Brahms was born; Schubert's effortless melodies and off-the-wall modulations long before Schubert matured; Chopin-like roulades and decorations popping up all over the place, written by a composer who died when Chopin was only two; fast movements whose virtuosic flair evokes Mozart or Clementi, yet maintains its own, pungent identity; Beethovenian thrust fortified by plusher, more Schumannesque keyboard deployment.

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