Description: Product Description : Schumann: The Faces and the Masks Drawing on previously unpublished sources this groundbreaking biography of Robert Schumann sheds new light on the great composers life and work With the rigorous research of a scholar and the eloquent prose of a novelist Judith Chernaik takes us into Schumanns nineteenthcentury 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 Wieckagainst her fathers wishesis 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 diarylong withheldfrom 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 directlyand timelesslyto the heart( it is an used product )
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Brand: Chernaik, Judith
UPC: 9780451494467
MPN: 9.78045E+12
Model No: 9.78045E+12
Country of Origin: USA United States
Net Quantity/Number of Units: 1
Dimensions LxWxH - Cms: 6.6X1.5X9.5
ISBN-10: 451494466
ISBN-13: 9780451494467
SKU: SONG0451494466
Edition: Illustrated
No. of Pages: 368
Type: Books
Book Title: Schumann : the Faces and the Masks
Number of Pages: 368 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Item Height: 1.5 in
Publication Year: 2018
Topic: Genres & Styles / Classical, Composers & Musicians, Individual Composer & Musician
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Music, Biography & Autobiography
Item Weight: 26.8 Oz
Item Length: 9.5 in
Author: Judith Chernaik
Item Width: 6.6 in
Format: Hardcover
