Schumann: a Self-portrait in His Own Words
Author | : Robert Schumann |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 138 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Composers |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Robert Schumann |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 138 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Composers |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 136 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Composers |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Franz Liszt |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 241 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Composers |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Eric Frederick Jensen |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 390 |
Release | : 2012-02-13 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 0199831955 |
Robert Schumann is one of the most intriguing-and enigmatic-composers of the nineteenth century. Extraordinarily gifted in both music and literature, many of his compositions were inspired by poetry and novels. For much of his life he was better known as a music critic than as a composer. But whether writing as critic or composer, what he produced was created by him as a reflection of his often turbulent life. Best known was the tempestuous courtship of his future wife, the pianist Clara Wieck. Though marriage and family life seemed to provide a sense of constancy, he increasingly experienced periods of depression and instability. Mounting criticism of his performance as music director at Dusseldorf led to his attempted suicide in 1854. Schumann was voluntarily committed to an insane asylum near Bonn where, despite indications of improvement and dissatisfaction with his treatment, he spent the final two years of his life. Drawing on original research and newly published letters and journals from the time, author Eric Frederick Jensen presents a balanced portrait of the composer with both scholarly authority and engaging clarity. Biographical chapters alternate with discussion of Schumann's piano, chamber, choral, symphonic, and operatic works, demonstrating how the circumstances of his life helped shape the music he wrote. Chronicling the romance of Robert and Clara, Jensen offers a nuanced look at the evolution of their relationship, one that changed dramatically after marriage. He also follows Schumann's creative musical criticism, which championed the burgeoning careers of Chopin, Liszt, and Brahms and challenged the musical tastes of Europe.
Author | : Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 168 |
Release | : 2012-10-03 |
Genre | : Composers |
ISBN | : 9781936512508 |
Author | : Judith Chernaik |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 2018-09-18 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 0451494474 |
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.
Author | : Jessica Duchen |
Publisher | : Unbound Publishing |
Total Pages | : 327 |
Release | : 2016-09-20 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1783529830 |
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.
Author | : John Daverio |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 624 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0195091809 |
This work focuses on the work of the romantic composer Robert Schumann.
Author | : Franz Liszt |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2012-12-08 |
Genre | : Composers |
ISBN | : 9781936512577 |
David Whitwell has drawn together a valuable collection of Liszt’s own intimate revelations on his personality, his character and his health. Here as well the reader will find Liszt’s personal insights on his own musical studies, his creative process and on some of his compositions. Liszt has also left fascinating first-hand observations on other pianists, composers and personalities whom he knew.
Author | : Peter F. Ostwald |
Publisher | : UPNE |
Total Pages | : 396 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781555530143 |
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.