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Author:

Chernaik, Judith, author.

Title:

Schumann : the faces and the masks / Judith Chernaik.

Edition:

First edition.

Publisher:

Alfred A. Knopf,

Copyright Date:

2018

Description:

xiv, 349 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm

Subject:

Schumann, Robert,--1810-1856.
Composers--Germany--Biography.
Biographies.

Notes:

"This is a Borzoi Book published by Alfred A. Knopf." Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-327) and index.

Contents:

Childhood and youth: 1810-1930 -- Leipzig book of life: Leipzig, 1831-1832 -- Reversals, renewals: Leipzig, 1833-1834 -- An even more important year: Leipzig, 1835 -- Wieck on the warpath: Leipzig, 1836 -- Love confirmed: Leipzig, May 1837-September 1837 -- New worlds: Leipzig, October 1837-October 1838 -- Toward the future: October 1838-May 1839 -- Final court battle: Leipzig, June 1839-August 1840 -- "With her forever": Leipzig, September 1840-1842 -- In conflict, in harmony: Leipzig, 1842-1844 -- Collapse and recovery: Dresden, December 1844-1847 -- Returning health, high ambitions: Dresden, 1848-August 1850 -- Music director in the Rhineland: Düsseldorf, September 1850-September 1853 -- Final crisis: Düsseldorf, October 1853-February 1854 -- The mind stripped bare: Endenich, 4 March 1854-29 July 1856 -- Afterword: Medical diagnosis of Schumann's illness.

Summary:

Traces the life and music of the major composer and key figure of Romanticism, who has been the subject of major controversy since his early death in a mental asylum.

ISBN:

0451494466
9780451494467

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1017579101

LCCN:

2017060796

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

BOPG851 -- Ames Public Library (Ames)

TCPG826 -- Bettendorf Public Library Information Center (Bettendorf)

CMPE792 -- Drake Community Library (Grinnell)

PQAX094 -- Wartburg College - Vogel Library (Waverly)