The life of Schumann
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The life of Schumann
(Musical lives)
Cambridge University Press, 2015
- : pbk
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Note
First paperback edition 2015
Notes: p. 180-213
Further reading and sources: p. 214-216
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Robert Schumann had a difficult start as a composer. Denied any significant musical upbringing, he took a long time through indirect routes to establish himself as a major composer. Persistent illness also dogged his work. His final catastrophic mental collapse has combined with the autobiographical and secretive aspects of his music to cast for posterity a veil of ominous mystery over his entire life. Yet this is only one view. Schumann battled his personal demons and was acutely self-aware and organized. He transformed himself from a brilliant youthful fantasist in small forms into a composer of extended works in every genre. This book provides a new focus on Schumann as a practical working musician interacting with the professional world to develop his creative gifts to the full, and examines the central role of Clara Wieck Schumann in helping to bring this about.
Table of Contents
- Preface: inherited images
- 1. A favourable upbringing: Zwickau, 1810-28
- 2. Undirected student: Leipzig and Heidelburg, 1828-30
- 3. A career in music: Leipzig, 1830-5
- 4. The Neue Zeitschrift fur Musik, Clara and new horizons: Leipzig, 1835-40
- 5. Married life: Leipzig, 1840-4
- 6. Growing ambitions: Dresden, 1844-50
- 7. Triumph and decline: Dusseldorf, 1850-4
- 8. The end: 1854-6
- Perspective and legacy
- Further reading.
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