Salons and domestic music-making – Frauenlieben und Leben

Reading: Mary Burgan, “Heroines at the Piano: Women and Music in Nineteenth-Century Fiction,” pp. 51–63.

Optional reading: Ruth Solie, “Whose Life?”

Listening: Robert Schumann, Frauenlieben und Leben

Tasks:

• Women making music in 19th-century fiction [research]