| Series |
Musical lives
Musical lives. ^A389495
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| Contents |
A favourable upbringing: Zwickau 1810-1828 -- Undirected student: Leipzig and Heidelberg 1828-1830 -- A career in music: Leipzig 1830-1835 -- The Neue Zeitschrift für Musik, Clara and new horizons: Leipzig 1835-1840 -- Married life: Leipzig 1840-1844 -- Growing ambitions: Dresden 1844-1850 -- Triumph and decline: Düsseldorf 1850-1854 -- The end: 1854-1856. |
| Abstract |
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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 214-216) and index. |
| LCCN | 2011002459 |
| ISBN | 9780521802482 (hardback) |
| ISBN | 0521802482 (hardback) |
| Standard identifier# |
40019588281 |
