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Schumann

Author : Judith Chernaik
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0451494474
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (514 download)

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Download or read book Schumann written by Judith Chernaik and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2018-09-18 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on previously unpublished sources, this groundbreaking biography of Robert Schumann sheds new light on the great composer’s life and work.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.

Robert Schumann

Author : John Worthen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780300163988
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (639 download)

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Download or read book Robert Schumann written by John Worthen and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shattering longstanding myths, this new biography reveals the robust and positive life of one of the nineteenth century's greatest composers This candid, intimate, and compellingly written new biography offers a fresh account of Robert Schumann's life. It confronts the traditional perception of the doom-laden Romantic, forced by depression into a life of helpless, poignant sadness. John Worthen's scrupulous attention to the original sources reveals Schumann to have been an astute, witty, articulate, and immensely determined individual, who--with little support from his family and friends in provincial Saxony--painstakingly taught himself his craft as a musician, overcame problem after problem in his professional life, and married the woman he loved after a tremendous battle with her father. Schumann was neither manic depressive nor schizophrenic, although he struggled with mental illness. He worked prodigiously hard to develop his range of musical styles and to earn his living, only to be struck down, at the age of forty-four, by a vile and incurable disease. Worthen's biography effectively de-mystifies a figure frequently regarded as a Romantic enigma. It frees Schumann from 150 years of mythmaking and unjustified psychological speculation. It reveals him, for the first time, as a brilliant, passionate, resolute musician and a thoroughly creative human being, the composer of arguably the best music of his generation.

Clara Schumann

Author : Nancy Reich
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 0801468299
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book Clara Schumann written by Nancy Reich and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2013-07-15 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This absorbing and award-winning biography tells the story of the tragedies and triumphs of Clara Wieck Schumann (1819–1896), a musician of remarkable achievements. At once artist, composer, editor, teacher, wife, and mother of eight children, she was an important force in the musical world of her time. To show how Schumann surmounted the obstacles facing female artists in the nineteenth century, Nancy B. Reich has drawn on previously unexplored primary sources: unpublished diaries, letters, and family papers, as well as concert programs. Going beyond the familiar legends of the Schumann literature, she applies the tools of musicological scholarship and the insights of psychology to provide a new, full-scale portrait.The book is divided into two parts. In Part One, Reich follows Clara Schumann's life from her early years as a child prodigy through her marriage to Robert Schumann and into the forty years after his death, when she established and maintained an extraordinary European career while supporting and supervising a household and seven children. Part Two covers four major themes in Schumann's life: her relationship with Johannes Brahms and other friends and contemporaries; her creative work; her life on the concert stage; and her success as a teacher.Throughout, excerpts from diaries and letters in Reich's own translations clear up misconceptions about her life and achievements and her partnership with Robert Schumann. Highlighting aspects of Clara Schumann's personality and character that have been neglected by earlier biographers, this candid and eminently readable account adds appreciably to our understanding of a fascinating artist and woman.For this revised edition, Reich has added several photographs and updated the text to include recent discoveries. She has also prepared a Catalogue of Works that includes all of Clara Schumann's known published and unpublished compositions and works she edited, as well as descriptions of the autographs, the first editions, the modern editions, and recent literature on each piece. The Catalogue also notes Schumann's performances of her own music and provides pertinent quotations from letters, diaries, and contemporary reviews.

Schumann

Author : Peter F. Ostwald
Publisher : UPNE
ISBN 13 : 9781555530143
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Schumann written by Peter F. Ostwald and published by UPNE. This book was released on 1985 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After obtaining access to long-sought-after archival material about the final years of Robert Schumann, Lise Deschamps Ostwald, the author's widow, is finally able to detail the composer's last years at the mental institution in Endenich, fulfilling her husband's original intent "Schumann is a remarkable piece of work...Soberly and objectively, it unearths information that no previous Schumann researcher--in English at least--has come near duplicating."--Harold C. Schonberg, The New York Times Book Review "Peter Ostwald, a San Francisco psychiatrist who is also a trained musician, has dug deeply...and applied his professional knowledge to the fashioning of a fascinating, perceptive psychobiography of the nineteenth-century Romantic master."--Arthur Hepner, Boston Globe "Ostwald...offers new insights into one about whom the musical world has never ceased wondering."--Robert Commanday, San Francisco Chronicle --Book Jacket.

Robert Schumann

Author : Martin Geck
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226284697
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (262 download)

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Download or read book Robert Schumann written by Martin Geck and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert Schumann (1810-56) is one of the most important and representative composers of the Romantic era. Here acclaimed biographer martin Geck tells the story of this multifaceted genius, set in the context of the political and social revolutions of his time.

Chamber Music

Author : Robert Schumann
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486241017
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (862 download)

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Download or read book Chamber Music written by Robert Schumann and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1981-01-01 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A selection of unabridged works from 'Serie IV. F'ur Streichinstrumente' and 'Serie V. F'ur Pianoforte und andere Instrumente' of the Collected Works Edition (Robert Schumann's Werke. Herausgegeben von Clara Schumann), originally published by Breitkopf & H'artel"--T.p. verso.

Robert Schumann

Author : John Daverio
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0195091809
Total Pages : 624 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (95 download)

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Download or read book Robert Schumann written by John Daverio and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1997 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work focuses on the work of the romantic composer Robert Schumann.

Clara Schumann

Author : Susanna Reich
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780618551606
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (516 download)

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Download or read book Clara Schumann written by Susanna Reich and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2005 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the life of the German pianist and composer who made her professional debut at age nine and who devoted her life to music and to her family.

My First Schumann

Author : Robert Schumann
Publisher : Schott Music
ISBN 13 : 3795728266
Total Pages : 54 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (957 download)

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Download or read book My First Schumann written by Robert Schumann and published by Schott Music. This book was released on 2018-03-13 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My First Bach and My First Mozart are now followed by a third edition of easy-to-play original works from one of the most important composers of the Romantic era: Robert Schumann. This collection includes pieces from Album for the Young and Scenes from Childhood, enabling young players to experience Romantic piano music for the first time. Ideal for teaching the first use of the pedal, pupils can learn how to play expressively and to distinguish between melody and accompaniment.

Schumann

Author : Harold Bauer
Publisher : Echo Point Books & Media
ISBN 13 : 9781635610499
Total Pages : 78 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book Schumann written by Harold Bauer and published by Echo Point Books & Media. This book was released on 2017-04-10 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The brilliant yet tortured Robert Schumann virtually launched the Romantic Era with his music, which conveyed the depths of his emotions through a unique blending of music and poetry. Nearly the entire Schumann catalogue is represented in this newly reissued edition.

Clara Schumann Piano Music

Author : Clara Schumann
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486312747
Total Pages : 66 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (863 download)

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Download or read book Clara Schumann Piano Music written by Clara Schumann and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2013-02-06 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Original compilation of the composer's most popular works, including Witches Dance, Op. 5, No. 1; Four Fleeting Pieces, Op. 15; Three Preludes and Fugues, Op. 16; and Three Romances, Op. 21; more.

Piano Music of Robert Schumann, Series I

Author : Robert Schumann
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486311392
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (863 download)

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Download or read book Piano Music of Robert Schumann, Series I written by Robert Schumann and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2013-03-27 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Major compositions from period 1830-39; Papillons, Toccata, Grosse Sonate No. 1, Phantasiestücke, Arabeske, Blümenstuck, and 9 other works. Reprinted from Breitkopf and Härtel edition.

Ghost Variations

Author : Jessica Duchen
Publisher : Unbound Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1783529830
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (835 download)

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Download or read book Ghost Variations written by Jessica Duchen and published by Unbound Publishing. This book was released on 2016-09-20 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The strangest detective story in the history of music – inspired by a true incident. A world spiralling towards war. A composer descending into madness. And a devoted woman struggling to keep her faith in art and love against all the odds. 1933. Dabbling in the fashionable “Glass Game” – a Ouija board – the famous Hungarian violinist Jelly d’Arányi, one-time muse to composers such as Bartók, Ravel and Elgar, encounters a startling dilemma. A message arrives ostensibly from the spirit of the composer Robert Schumann, begging her to find and perform his long-suppressed violin concerto. She tries to ignore it, wanting to concentrate instead on charity concerts. But against the background of the 1930s depression in London and the rise of the Nazis in Germany, a struggle ensues as the “spirit messengers” do not want her to forget. The concerto turns out to be real, embargoed by Schumann’s family for fear that it betrayed his mental disintegration: it was his last full-scale work, written just before he suffered a nervous breakdown after which he spent the rest of his life in a mental hospital. It shares a theme with his Geistervariationen (Ghost Variations) for piano, a melody he believed had been dictated to him by the spirits of composers beyond the grave. As rumours of its existence spread from London to Berlin, where the manuscript is held, Jelly embarks on an increasingly complex quest to find the concerto. When the Third Reich’s administration decides to unearth the work for reasons of its own, a race to perform it begins. Though aided and abetted by a team of larger-than-life personalities – including her sister Adila Fachiri, the pianist Myra Hess, and a young music publisher who falls in love with her – Jelly finds herself confronting forces that threaten her own state of mind. Saving the concerto comes to mean saving herself. In the ensuing psychodrama, the heroine, the concerto and the pre-war world stand on the brink, reaching together for one more chance of glory.

Classical Music For Dummies

Author : David Pogue
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1119049741
Total Pages : 387 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book Classical Music For Dummies written by David Pogue and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2015-06-25 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Haydn, Tchaikovsky, and Brahms, oh, my! The beginner's guide to classical music Classical Music For Dummies is a friendly, funny, easy-to-understand guide to composers, instruments, orchestras, concerts, recordings, and more. Classical music is widely considered one of the pinnacles of human achievement, and this informative guide will shows you just how beautiful and rewarding it can be. You'll learn how Bach is different from Beethoven, how Mozart is different still, and why not all "classical" music is actually Classical if it's really Baroque or Romantic. You'll be introduced to the composers and their work, and discover the groundbreaking pieces that shake the world every time they're played. Begin building your classical music library with the essential recordings that define orchestral, choral, and operatic beauty as you get acquainted with the orchestras and musicians that bring the composers to life. Whether you want to play classical music or just learn more about it, Classical Music For Dummies will teach you everything you need to know to get the most out of this increasingly popular genre. Distinguish flute from piccolo, violin from viola, and trumpet from trombone Learn the difference between overtures, requiems, arias, and masses Explore the composers that shaped music as we know it Discover the recordings your music library cannot be without Classical music has begun sneaking into the mainstream — if your interest has been piqued, there's never been a better time to develop an appreciation for this incredibly rich, complex, and varied body of work. Classical Music For Dummies lays the groundwork, and demonstrates just how amazing classical music can be.

Fantasy Pieces

Author : Harald Krebs
Publisher : New York : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195169468
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (951 download)

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Download or read book Fantasy Pieces written by Harald Krebs and published by New York : Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a theory of metrical conflict and applies it to the music of Schumann, thereby placing the composer's distinctive metrical style in full focus. It describes the various categories of metrical conflict that characterize Schumann's work, investigates how states of conflict are introduced and then manipulated and resolved in his compositions, and studies the interaction of such metrical conflict with form, pitch structure, and text. Throughout the text, Krebs intersperses his own theoretical assertions with Schumannesque dialogues between Florestan and Eusebius, who comment on the theory at hand while also discussing and illustrating relevant aspects of "their" metrical practices.

Album For The Young: Op. 68

Author : Robert Schumann
Publisher : Legare Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781019296844
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (968 download)

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Download or read book Album For The Young: Op. 68 written by Robert Schumann and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2022-10-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

The Marriage Diaries of Robert & Clara Schumann

Author : Robert Schumann
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Marriage Diaries of Robert & Clara Schumann written by Robert Schumann and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Schumann Marriage diaries provide a vivid portrait of the unique artistic and personal union between two renowned musicians. For the first four years of their marriage, Robert and Clara Schumann kept a joint diary, recording their entries, at least initially, on alternate weeks. Begun on September 13, 1840, the day after their marriage, the diary opens with guidance from Robert: "This little book . . . has a very intimate meaning; it shall be a diary about everything that touches us mutually in our household and marriage." The diaries reflect the harmony as well as the discord in their marriage. Robert and Clara describe in intimate detail their honeymoon period, the births of their children, their busy social lives, travels throughout Europe, financial problems, separations, and reunions. The book also evokes the artistic milieu of nineteenth-century Germany. The Schumanns came in contact with many musicians, including their close friends Felix Mendelssohn and Franz Liszt, and recorded their insightful reactions to the artists and their music. The marriage diaries cover a fertile period in Robert Schumann's life, during which he wrote the Spring Symphony, the Piano Concerto, most of his chamber music, his first oratorio, "Paradise and the Peri, " and numerous songs. They reflect the frenetic pace at which he worked, as well as his growing bouts of depression, his ambivalent response to Clara's decision to return to the concert stage after a prolonged hiatus, and her anxiety in the face of Robert's changing moods. This edition includes the couple's travel book, written during their stressful concert tour of Russia in 1844, which marked the end of the marriage diaries; RobertSchumann's descriptions of Russian customs; and the poems he wrote in Moscow - all of which provide a fascinating and uniquely detailed glimpse at what it was like to travel in Russia at the time.