This survey of the literary treatment of musicians in German novels and novellas begins with the Romantics and ends with the publication of Thomas Mann's Doktor Faustus. Schoolfield explores the work of a large selection of writers, including Hoffmann, Tieck, Kleist, Brentano, Grillparzer, Werfel and Hesse among many others. Through these works he tracks the progression of the figure of the musician as professional, artist, genius, composer, and pedagogue and how the pursuit of their art is interpreted by major literary movements.
- ISBN10 0807888192
- ISBN13 9780807888193
- Publish Date 1 January 1957
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 8 February 2021
- Publish Country US
- Imprint The University of North Carolina Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 220
- Language English