This book offers a long-awaited opportunity to assess the thought and influence of one of the most famous of all writers on music and the musical links with his

E.T.A. Hoffmann (1776-1822) was a man of diversified talents, an artist, composer, conductor, critic, jurist, and writer. Although he is best known for his stor

Whilst E.T.A. Hoffmann (1776-1822) is most widely known as the author of fantastic tales, he was also prolific as a music critic, productive as a composer, and

John MacAuslan interprets four great Schumann works in the context of their literary connections and Romantic aesthetic concepts.