Jon W. Finson

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

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]

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

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

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