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Chernaik, Judith.
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Schumann, Robert, 1810-1856.
Composers -- Germany -- Biography.
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Chernaik, Judith.
Schumann, Robert, 1810-1856.
Composers -- Germany -- Biography.
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Schumann : the faces and the masks /
Judith
Chernaik
.
by
Chernaik
,
Judith
.
Faber & Faber, 2018.
Call #:
780.92 S392c
Subjects
Schumann, Robert, 1810-1856.
Composers -- Germany -- Biography.
ISBN:
9780571331260 (hc.)
Description:
xiv, 349 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-327) and index.
Summary:
Schumann: The Faces and the Masks is a groundbreaking account of a major composer whose life and works have been the subject of intense controversy ever since his attempted suicide and early death in an insane asylum. Schumann was a key figure in the Romanticism which swept Europe and America in the 19th century, inspiring writers, musicians and painters, delighting their enthralled audiences, and reaching to the furthest corners of the world. All the contradictions of his age enter Schumann's works, from the fantastic disguises of his carnival masquerades and his passionate love songs to his great 'Spring' and 'Rhenish' Symphonies. He was intensely original and imaginative, but he also worshipped the past-especially Shakespeare and Byron, Raphael and Michelangelo, Beethoven and Bach. He believed in political, personal and artistic freedom but struggled with the constraints of artistic form. He turned his tumultuous life into music that speaks directly to the heart, losing none of its power with the passage of time. Drawing on hitherto unpublished archive material,
Chernaik
sheds new light on Schumann's life and music, his sexual escapades, his fathering of an illegitimate child, the true facts behind his courtship of his wife Clara and the opposition of her monstrous father, and the ways in which the crises of his life, his dreams and fantasies, entered his music. Schumann's troubled relations with his fellow-Romantic composers Mendelssohn and Chopin are freshly explored, and the full medical diary kept at Endenich Asylum, long withheld, enables
Chernaik
to solve the mystery of Schumann's final illness. Using her wide experience as a scholar of Romanticism and a novelist,
Chernaik
vividly brings Schumann's world and his extraordinary artistic achievement to life in all its rich complexity.
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