Rufus Hallmark sets Schumann\'s famous song cycle in the context of the challenges and social expectations faced by women in early nineteenth-century Germany.
His study offers insights on Schumann\'s composing materials, reception of the song cycle, other contemporary Poems about women, and comparisons with other musical settings of the poems..
Rufus Hallmark sets Schumann\'s famous song cycle in the context of the challenges and social expectations faced by women in early nineteenth-century Germany