Robert Schumann의 「Piano Sonata f minor, Op.14」에 관한 연구

Abstract

Robert Schumann(1810-1856) was the most remarkable composer and critic of the Romanticism of the nineteenth century. He synthesized personal style by grafting literature onto music, and through the journal activities he relates to contemporary musicians or found unknown talented musicians. His composing genre is classified clearly on the time-periodic, and noticeable piano works were created in his early period. His later works were adaption and completions of his earlier unpublished pieces, and they express some relationship to the early period. Evaluations of his later works should be properly considered in light of Schumann's renewed medical diagnosis. This document presents a detailed study of 「Piano Sonata f minor, Op.14」, in the context of the circumstances of the nineteenth century, and it distinguishes the characteristics of Schumann's musical style. As a major sonata, it was revised multiple times, because of interference by the publisher, and eventually completed in 1853 with four movements. It shows the composer's personal painfulness through its serious coloring of f minor. The first movement demonstrates a parallel form that is a 'new form' in contrast to the classical normative form. By involving formal repetition, truncated recapitulation follows the exposition and development sections. Additionally, it represents Schumann's peculiar style with strong octave, syncopation, sudden contrast with dotted rhythm, and so on. The second movement scherzo is a three-part composite type, loads conjunct motion through dotted rhythms, wide leaping notes, and compares from staccato and legato. The third movement is organized with four variations and the theme from 'Clara motto', which unifies the entire piece. The fourth movement diverges far from the sonata form to create a parallel form. It constantly proceeds with sixteenth notes like a mosaic, and it creates a tendency, such as a passionate 'Florestan' or gentle 'Eusebius'. The theme displays alternating contrasts. Schumann's 「Piano Sonata f minor, Op.14」ends with an inventive parallel form and his personal romantic style through logical revision. Although the piece is not program music, it maintains features that are harmonious with literature, which made Schumann a pioneer of the newly designed Romantic Sonata. This piece is an important work that technically employs advanced piano to enable musicians to fully demonstrate their musical abilities.