Eric Sams" study of Schumann"s 246 songs (Faber 1961, revised 1993) - a companion volume to his The Songs of Hugo Wolf, also available in Faber Finds - remains a classic text. By providing a translation, commentary and notes for each of the songs, tracing original sources and relating recurring themes vividly to Schumann"s life, Sams provides a unique documentary of Schumann"s song-writing art. The book includes a foreword (to the First Edition) by the legendary accompanist, Gerald Moore, who writes: "So felicitous is the writing that one is hardly conscious of the erudition and profound thought that have gone into the making of it . . . Eric Sams has produced a work that will be read and read again as long as Robert Schumann"s songs are loved."