Jon W. Finson

Jon W. Finson (born 4 November 1950) is an American musicologist.^[1]

Works

He became known through the publication of the first version of Schumann's Symphony No. 4 in D minor in 2003 in Wiesbaden. Two of his six books published to date can be regarded as masterpieces of Robert Schumann research:

• Robert Schumann and the Study of Orchestral Composition: The Genesis of the First Symphony; Op. 38 (Studies in Musical Genesis and Structure).^[2] Clarendon Press, Oxford 1989, ISBN 978-0-19-313213-9
• Robert Schumann: The Book of Songs.^[3] Harvard University Press, Cambridge MA 2007, ISBN 0-674-02629-2^[4][5]

Prizes

Together with Ulf Wallin, he won the 2013 Robert Schumann Prize of the City of Zwickau.

References

1. Jon Finson (Baritone) on Bach Cantatas Website
2. Robert Schumann and the Study of Orchestral Composition: The Genesis of the First Symphony; Op. 38 (Studies in Musical Genesis and Structure) on WorldCat
3. Robert Schumann: The Book of Songs on WorldCat
4. Robert Schumann: The Book of Songs on Google books
5. Robert Schumann: The Book of Songs on Oxford Academic

External links

• 5 October 2012 – Schumann-Preisträger 2013 stehen fest. schumannzwickau.de; Short biography