9780571331260 - Schumann: The Faces and the Masks von Chernaik, Judith (7 Ergebnisse)

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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Schumann: The Faces and 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 Romanticism which swept Europe and America in the 19th century, inspiring writers, musicians and painters, delighting their enthralled audiences, and reaching to the furthest corners of the world. All the contradictions of his age enter Schumann's works, from the fantastic disguises of his carnival masquerades and his passionate love songs to his great 'Spring' and 'Rhenish' Symphonies. He was intensely original and imaginative, but he also worshipped the past-especially Shakespeare and Byron, Raphael and Michelangelo, Beethoven and Bach. He believed in political, personal and artistic freedom but struggled with the constraints of artistic form. He turned his tumultuous life into music that speaks directly to the heart, losing none of its power with the passage of time. Drawing on hitherto unpublished archive material, Chernaik sheds new light on Schumann's life and music, his sexual escapades, his fathering of an illegitimate child, the true facts behind his courtship of his wife Clara and the opposition of her monstrous father, and the ways in which the crises of his life, his dreams and fantasies, entered his music. Schumann's troubled relations with his fellow-Romantic composers Mendelssohn and Chopin are freshly explored, and the full medical diary kept at Endenich Asylum, long withheld, enables Chernaik to look again at the mystery of Schumann's final illness. Using her wide experience as a scholar of Romanticism and a novelist, Chernaik vividly brings Schumann's world and his extraordinary artistic achievement to life in all its rich complexity. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

First Edition. Near fine copy in the original title-blocked cloth. Slightly shadow stained. Library marks. Remains well-preserved overall. Physical description; xiv, 349 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some colour), portraits (some colour) ; 25 cm. Subjects; Schumann, Robert (1810-1856). Composers Germany Biography 19th century. Music Germany 19th century History and criticism. 1 Kg.

Pink Cloth Boards. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First Edition, First Printing. Life and work of the German composer and music critic Robert Schumann (1810-1856), drawing on previously unpublished archive material and the medical diary kept at Endenich Asylum, where Schumann ended his days. 349pp with index and 16 pages of illustrations in colour and black and white. Black endpapers. Slight sunning to edges, some marking to lower part of top board and to some margins, otherwise very good copy with no inscriptions. Half-size DJ is unclipped, with minor edge and surface wear, otherwise very good. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Book.