The Francis who emerges here is both more complex and more conflicted than that of older biographies

good moral deliberation is not limited merely to intuitive judgments supported after the fact by reasoning

It can be a ‘miss-you’ piece — a symbol for when someone is absent

den dramaturgiska grundmodellen och den mer avancerade berättartekniken behandlas också

Romances, Ballads and Melodramas apostlar & helgon The Francis who emerges hereRobert Schumanns literary background and cultivated taste is revealed in his choice of texts for musical setting. The emphasis in this collection is on songs with a narrative character, such as the tragic tale of Die feindlichen Bruder in which two brothers kill each other in a duel for love of the same girl. Further stories are drawn from those by Hans Christian Andersen. In around 1850 Schumann embarked on a series of melodramas with dramatic spoken