Jon W. Finson
# Jon W. Finson

Jon W. Finson (born 4 November 1950) is an American musicologist.

## 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). Clarendon Press, Oxford 1989, ISBN 978-0-19-313213-9
* Robert Schumann: The Book of Songs. Harvard University Press, Cambridge MA 2007, ISBN 0-674-02629-2

## Prizes

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

