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When is a musical idea simply a cliché, when a case of borrowing, and when a quotation? With Schumann’s Fantasie op. 17 as an interesting doubtful case of musical quotation.Music excerpts:J.S. Bach, Das wolhtemperierte Klavier I, Präludium in C BWV846.*W.A. Mozart, Ave verum corpus KV 618.*W.A. Mozart, Symphony in g KV 550.*J.S. Bach, Matthäuspassion BWV 244, aria Aus Liebe will mein Heiland sterben.*J. Haydn (?), Divertimento (Sonata) in A Hob. XVI:12.*W.A. Mozart, Piano Concerto in A KV 488/2 (Adagio).*R. Schumann, Fantasie in C op. 17.*L. van Beethoven, An die ferne Geliebte. F. Wunderlich, H. Schmidt. Philips 420.852-2F. Chopin, Variations on Là ci darem la mano from Mozart’s Don Giovanni op. 2.*R. Schumann, Fantasie in C op. 17.**Lodewijk Muns, piano.Selected sources:Marston, N. Schumann: Fantasie, Op. 17. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1992.Muns, Lodewijk. ‘Music Remembered – in Music (2). 2019. https://lodewijkmuns.nl/2019/11/18/music-remembered-2/Rice, J. A. ‘Adding to the Galant Schematicon: The Lully’. Mozart-Jahrbuch 2015.Rosen, Ch. The Romantic Generation. Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press 1995.Rosen, Ch. Romantic Poets, Critics, and Other Madmen. Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press 1998.Schumann, C. en R. Briefwechsel: Kritische Gesamtausgabe. Ed. by Eva Weissweiler. Basel: Stroemfeld 1984.Seiffert, W.-D. Will versus Caprice. On the the Closing Measures of Robert Schumann’s C-Major Fantasy Op. 17. G. Henle Verlag (blog). 2012. https://www.henle.de/blog/en/2012/08/20/will-versus-caprice-dealing-with-the-closing-measures-of-robert-schumann%E2%80%99s-c-major-fantasy-op-17/Todd, R. L., 'On Quotation in Schumann’s Music'. In R. Larry Todd (ed.). Schumann and His World. Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press 1994.
