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Julie Hedges Brown studies the lives and music of Robert and Clara Schumann from critical, contextual, and analytical perspectives. She has presented her work at numerous national and international conferences and published in a variety of journals and book collections. After receiving her PhD from Yale University, she taught at Tufts University, Case Western Reserve University, and Oberlin Conservatory. Currently she is Professor of Musicology at Northern Arizona University, where she has won awards for her teaching.
Julie Hedges Brown offers a virtuosically multifaceted perspective on Robert Schumann's chamber music, integrating revelatory musical analyses with explorations of performance, reception, and multimedia. Her work invites us to hear new meanings in several works central to the chamber-music canon, pushing us beyond received wisdom about Schumann's biography and aesthetic. She vividly reveals the intricacy, creativity, and significance both of Schumann's engagement with the chamber music tradition and of later musicians', writers', and choreographers' engagement with his music. * Alexander Stefania, Washington University in Saint Louis * Hedges Brown's masterful study inscribes Schumann's Leipzig chamber works 'in the great stream of time' by weaving together musical, literary, theatrical, and personal resonances, past, present, and future. Combining finely chiseled analyses with a dynamic view of Schumann's creative development, Hedges Brown offers penetrating insights into the chamber works' stylistic and structural reimaginations and on their performance and reception from the nineteenth century to this day. Like the music it illuminates, the volume links different moments in time and so offers new ways to hear and understand these pivotal compositions. * Julie Pedneault-Deslauriers, University of Ottawa *
