Series page

pp ii-ii

Frauenliebe und Leben - Title page

pp iii-iii

Copyright page

pp iv-iv

Dedication

pp v-vi

Contents

pp vii-vii

Tables

pp viii-viii

Music examples

pp ix-xi

Acknowledgments

pp xii-xiv

How to use this book

pp xv-xvi

Introduction

pp 1-5

1 - Prologue – women in early nineteenth-century Germany: societal conventions,ideology, relationships

pp 6-26

Part I - The poetry

pp 27-108

2 - Adelbert von Chamisso: a sketch of his life and works

pp 29-73

3 - Chamisso’s poems about women: a literary context for Frauenliebe und Leben

pp 74-108

Part II - The music

pp 109-235

4 - The musical reception of Frauenliebe und Leben

pp 111-136

5 - Schumann at work on his songs

pp 137-160

6 - Schumann’s cycle: analysis and comparative interpretation

pp 161-235

Afterword

pp 236-238

Appendix 1 - Chronological listing of nineteenth-century Frauenliebe und Leben settings

pp 239-240

Appendix 2 - Poetry in the original German and in English translation

pp 241-261

Select bibliography

pp 262-272

Index

pp 273-276