Robert Schumann

Robert Schumann

Author: Jon W. Finson

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 342

ISBN-13: 9780674026292

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Arguably no other 19th-century German composer was as literate or as finely attuned to setting verse as Robert Schumann. Finson challenges assumptions about Schumann’s Lieder, engaging traditionally held interpretations. Arranged in part thematically, rather than by strict compositional chronology, this book speaks to the heart of Schumann’s music.


Robert Schumann, Words and Music

Robert Schumann, Words and Music

Author: Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

Publisher:

Published: 1988

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13:

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(Amadeus). Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, one of today's great interpreters of vocal music, examines Schumann's life in relation to his entire vocal oeuvre. The songs, his only opera, Genoveva , his secular oratorios, the Scenes from Goethe's Faust, Manfred , and the Mass and Requiem are all given careful consideration, with suggestions for interpretation. HARDCOVER.


Robert Schumann

Robert Schumann

Author: Martin Geck

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 322

ISBN-13: 0226284697

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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.


Robert Schumann

Robert Schumann

Author: John Daverio

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 624

ISBN-13: 0195091809

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This work focuses on the work of the romantic composer Robert Schumann.


The Songs of Robert Schumann

The Songs of Robert Schumann

Author: Eric Sams

Publisher: Faber & Faber

Published: 2011-10-06

Total Pages: 294

ISBN-13: 0571280994

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Eric Sams' study of Schumann's 246 songs (Faber 1961, revised 1993) - a companion volume to his The Songs of Hugo Wolf, also available in Faber Finds - remains a classic text. By providing a translation, commentary and notes for each of the songs, tracing original sources and relating recurring themes vividly to Schumann's life, Sams provides a unique documentary of Schumann's song-writing art. The book includes a foreword (to the First Edition) by the legendary accompanist, Gerald Moore, who writes: 'So felicitous is the writing that one is hardly conscious of the erudition and profound thought that have gone into the making of it . . . Eric Sams has produced a work that will be read and read again as long as Robert Schumann's songs are loved.'


Schumann

Schumann

Author: Judith Chernaik

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 2018-09-18

Total Pages: 418

ISBN-13: 0451494474

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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.


Piano Music of Robert Schumann, Series III

Piano Music of Robert Schumann, Series III

Author: Robert Schumann

Publisher: Courier Corporation

Published: 2013-02-21

Total Pages: 222

ISBN-13: 0486311708

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Selected from works originally published by Breitkopf & Härtel, this collection includes 15 pieces: Intermezzi, Op. 4; Impromptus, Op. 5; Supplement to Op. 13; Romances, Op. 28; Four Marches, Op. 76; and more.


Piano Music of Robert Schumann, Series I

Piano Music of Robert Schumann, Series I

Author: Robert Schumann

Publisher: Courier Corporation

Published: 2013-03-27

Total Pages: 287

ISBN-13: 0486311392

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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.


Robert Schumann

Robert Schumann

Author: John Worthen

Publisher:

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780300163988

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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.