title: Jon W. Finson
text: # 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.
  
  