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Schumann

Schumann

The Faces and the Masks

by Judith Chernaik
Hardback
Publication Date: 18/09/2018

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Drawing on previously unpublished sources, this groundbreaking biography of Robert Schumann sheds new light on the great composer's life and work. With the rigorous research of a scholar and the eloquent prose of a novelist, Judith Chernaik takes us into Schumann's nineteenth-century Romantic milieu, where he wore many "masks" that gave voice to each corner of his soul. The son of a book publisher, he infused his pieces with literary ideas. He was passionately original but worshipped the past: Bach and Beethoven, Shake­speare and Byron. He believed in artistic freedom but struggled with constraints of form. His courtship and marriage to the brilliant pianist Clara Wieck--against her father's wishes--is one of the great musical love stories of all time. Chernaik freshly explores his troubled relations with fellow composers Mendelssohn and Chopin, and the full medi­cal diary--long withheld--from the Endenich asylum where he spent his final years enables her to look anew at the mystery of his early death. By turns tragic and transcendent, Schumann shows how this extraordinary artist turned his tumultuous life into music that speaks directly--and timelessly--to the heart.
ISBN:
9780451494467
9780451494467
Category:
Western "classical" music
Format:
Hardback
Publication Date:
18-09-2018
Language:
English
Publisher:
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Country of origin:
United States
Dimensions (mm):
241.3x167.64x38.1mm
Weight:
0.76kg
Judith Chernaik

Born in New York, Judith Chernaik now lives in London. She is best known for founding London's popular Poems on the Underground, which offers poetry of all times and places to a mass audience, a programme which has taken off in cities worldwide.

She is the co-editor of anthologies of Poems on the Underground and her other publications include The Lyrics of Shelley, four novels and many essays, reviews and short stories in the TLS, Guardian, Times, New York Times,Yale Review, most recently essays on Schumann, Mendelssohn, and Chopin in The Musical Times.

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