The Complete Correspondence of Clara and Robert Schumann

Biographical notes

Ronald Crawford (Author) Hildegard Fritsch (Author)

The Editor: Eva Weissweiler received her Ph.D. in Music and Germanistik in 1974. Her publications include Women Composers over the Last Five Centuries (Komponistinnen aus 500 Jahren) 1981, Fanny Mendelssohn: Italian Diary (Fanny Mendelssohn: Italienisches Tagebuch) 1982, Fanny Mendelssohn: A Portrait in Letters (Fanny Mendelssohn: Ein Porträt in Briefen) 1985. Dr. Weissweiler is the editor of the original German edition of The Complete Correspondence of Clara and Robert Schumann (Clara/Robert Schumann: Briefwechsel, Kritische Gesamtausgabe) 1984, 1987. She lives and works in Cologne, Germany. The Translators: Hildegard Fritsch is an associate professor of German at Kent State University. She received her Ph.D. from Case Western Reserve University. Her publications include a book and articles on 20th-century German literature. Ronald L. Crawford is an associate professor of German at Kent State University. He received his doctorate from Rutgers University and has published a variety of literary and pedagogical studies. Fritsch and Crawford translated Volume I of the Schumann correspondence.