Schumann
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Schumann

The Faces and the Masks

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eBook - ePub

Schumann

The Faces and the Masks

About this book

SCHUMANN: THE FACES & 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 Romantic movement which enraptured poets, musicians, painters and their audiences in the early 19th century and beyond, right up to the present time. He embodied all the contrasting themes of Romanticism - he was intensely original and imaginative, but also worshipped the past; he believed in political, personal and artistic freedom but insisted on the need for artistic form. He turned his tumultuous life into music that speaks directly to the heart. Drawing on hitherto unpublished archive material, Chernaik provides new insight into Schumann's life and his music, his sexual escapades, his fathering of an illegitimate child, the true facts behind his courtship of Clara and the opposition of her monstrous father, and the ways in which the crises of his life fed into the dreams and fantasies of his greatest music.

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Publisher
Faber & Faber
Year
2018
eBook ISBN
9780571331284
Subtopic
Music Biographies

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Landing Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Introduction
  7. 1: Childhood and Youth: 1810–1830
  8. 2: Leipzig Book of Life: Leipzig, 1831–1832
  9. 3: Reversals, Renewals: Leipzig, 1833–1834
  10. 4: An Even More Important Year: Leipzig, 1835
  11. 5: Wieck on the Warpath: Leipzig, 1836
  12. 6: Love Confirmed: Leipzig, May 1837–September 1837
  13. 7: New Worlds: Leipzig, October 1837–October 1838
  14. 8: Toward the Future: October 1838–May 1839
  15. 9: Final Court Battle: Leipzig, June 1839–August 1840
  16. 10: “With Her Forever”: Leipzig, September 1840–1842
  17. 11: In Conflict, in Harmony: Leipzig, 1842–1844
  18. 12: Collapse and Recovery: Dresden, December 1844–1847
  19. 13: Returning Health, High Ambitions: Dresden, 1848–August 1850
  20. 14: Music Director in the Rhineland: Düsseldorf, September 1850–September 1853
  21. 15: Final Crisis: Düsseldorf, October 1853–February 1854
  22. 16: The Mind Stripped Bare: Endenich, 4 March 1854–29 July 1856
  23. Afterword: Medical Diagnosis of Schumann’s Illness
  24. A Note on Performances Available on the Internet
  25. Acknowledgments
  26. Primary Sources
  27. Further Reading
  28. Index of Schumann’s Works
  29. General Index
  30. Plates
  31. Illustration Credits
  32. About the Author
  33. Also by the Author
  34. Copyright

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