Schumann's "emotional Of" Music Aesthetics Presented In Their Works

Robert Schumann (1810-1856) was a famous German composer and influential music critic. As one of the representatives of the romanticism musicians in the early half of the19th century in Europe, Robert Schumann had created an array of amazing musical works and the advanced musical concepts of romanticism embodied by him substantially promoted the development of German music in the19th century. The musical aesthetics characterized by emotion served as the core of Schumann’s musical ideology. He gave much prominence to the important role emotion played in artistic works and followed this principle throughout his career of musical creation. The liedereyclus created in the year1840, Frauenliebe und Leben, where he interpreted the ups and downs of a woman’s lifetime love experience with his simple and earnest melody, was the typical classic of Schumann at the peak of his musical creation. In this piece of music, the depiction of the delicate psychological feelings and mood swing perfectly embodies Schumann’s emotion-oriented musical concept. Through interpretation of Schumann’s emotion-oriented musical aesthetics as well as how this concept is embodied in the song cycle Frauenliebe und Leben, this paper enables readers to better understand the artistic ideology and pursuit of romanticism composers represented by Schumann in the19th century; meanwhile, with my own practice of playing this piece of music in the concert held during the middle postgraduate years, I am hoping to interpret and display the musical essence of this work to its fullest based the musical ideology it renders more understandable among people. The main content of the paper is as follows.Chapter One Introduction:the rationale, significance and research purpose of this paper is provided.Chapter Two First, a brief introduction of Schumann’s life of arts is provided; then it proceeds to the analysis and discussion of the creation background and content of the song cycle Frauenliebe und Leben.Chapter Three Divide into three parts Schumann’s emotion-oriented Musical aesthetics and its display in his works. Firstly, it reveals the formation of Schumann’s emotion-oriented musical aesthetics from the three aspects of social environment, literature influence and personal factors. Secondly, it analyzes and illustrates the three characteristics of Schumann’s emotion-oriented musical aesthetics, namely emotionality, fantasy and subjectivity. Finally, through the delicate and rich description of emotion in Schumann’s Frauenliebe und Leben as well as the tragic conveyed in it, this chapter explicates the embodiment of emotion-oriented musical aesthetics in Frauenliebe und Leben.Chapter Four Through the interpretation and display of emotion in Frauenliebe und Leben in practical playing, this chapter conducts a comprehensive analysis into the psychological path of the woman in the three most important stages in her love and life-first-love, marriage and post-marital life-as well as the corresponding voice characteristics and emotional changes in playing.Conclusion This chapter summarizes what have been covered in this paper and draws a conclusion.