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- Type
- Biography
- Signed By
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- Signed
- No
- Book Series
- N/A
- Narrative Type
- Nonfiction
- Features
- Dust Jacket
- Original Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- United States
- Intended Audience
- Adults, Young Adults
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN
- 9780451494467
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0451494466
ISBN-13
9780451494467
eBay Product ID (ePID)
243015799
Product Key Features
Book Title
Schumann : the Faces and the Masks
Number of Pages
368 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Genres & Styles / Classical, Composers & Musicians, Individual Composer & Musician
Publication Year
2018
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Music, Biography & Autobiography
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.5 in
Item Weight
26.8 Oz
Item Length
9.5 in
Item Width
6.6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2017-060796
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
"A guided tour through the life and work of Robert Schumann (1810-1856), a musical genius who viewed the sublime before a decline into syphilitic madness. . . . A sturdy foundation of research and musical knowledge (and love) underlies this inspiring and wrenching account of a man who pursued, captured, and lost." -- Kirkus Reviews (starred review), "Chernaik is an enthusiastic student of Schumann's music and a fine chronicler of his turbulent life. Schumann: The Faces and the Masks is a well-proportioned, highly readable biography for general readers that establishes Schumann as a man thoroughly of his time. The book's greatest contribution is to situate Schumann in a remarkable fraternity of 19th-century composers." --Michael O'Donnell, The Wall Street Journal "An affecting and moving biography . . . Chernaik pays close attention to the music and summons its inimitable combination of romantic ardour, eccentricity and classical craftsmanship in deft prose." -- Ivan Hewett, lead review in The Daily Telegraph "Fast-paced and informative . . . Chernaik vividly brings to life German composer Robert Schumann. Using his personal diaries, letters, and other key archival sources, Chernaik puts his life in a new light while providing an overview of Romanticism in 19th-century Europe." -- Publishers Weekly (starred review) "[An] intimate biography . . . [Chernaik], who betrays a close acquaintance with the composer's oeuvre, offers a very personal take on his life . . . While providing ample discussion of the classical works, [she] eschews technical language and musical notation . . . Highly recommended." --Herbert E. Shapiro , Library Journal "Altogether outstanding. . . . [Schumann's] story is oft-told, but Chernaik's version eclipses its predecessors in two, perhaps three, respects. She has accessed newly released documentation of Schumann's final illness . . . She fills the book with descriptions of Schumann's compositions that are more easily followed and more thorough than most recording liner notes and that convincingly relate each piece to Schumann's life circumstances as well as to his other music . . . The third distinction stems from the fact that Chernaik is also a novelist. She doesn't get bogged down in data or scholarly one-upmanship, her vocabulary is direct and strong, and she keeps the line of Schumann's life ever before us." --Ray Olson, Booklist (starred review) "A guided tour through the life and work of Robert Schumann (1810-1856), a musical genius who viewed the sublime before a decline into syphilitic madness. . . . A sturdy foundation of research and musical knowledge (and love) underlies this inspiring and wrenching account of a man who pursued, captured, and lost." -- Kirkus Reviews (starred review), "Altogether outstanding. . . . [Schumann's] story is oft-told, but Chernaik's version eclipses its predecessors in two, perhaps three, respects. She has accessed newly released documentation of Schumann's final illness . . . She fills the book with descriptions of Schumann's compositions that are more easily followed and more thorough than most recording liner notes and that convincingly relate each piece to Schumann's life circumstances as well as to his other music . . . The third distinction stems from the fact that Chernaik is also a novelist. She doesn't get bogged down in data or scholarly one-upmanship, her vocabulary is direct and strong, and she keeps the line of Schumann's life ever before us." --Ray Olson, Booklist (starred review) "A guided tour through the life and work of Robert Schumann (1810-1856), a musical genius who viewed the sublime before a decline into syphilitic madness. . . . A sturdy foundation of research and musical knowledge (and love) underlies this inspiring and wrenching account of a man who pursued, captured, and lost." -- Kirkus Reviews (starred review), "Chernaik is an enthusiastic student of Schumann's music and a fine chronicler of his turbulent life. Schumann: The Faces and the Masks is a well-proportioned, highly readable biography for general readers that establishes Schumann as a man thoroughly of his time. The book's greatest contribution is to situate Schumann in a remarkable fraternity of 19th-century composers." --Michael O'Donnell, The Wall Street Journal "An affecting and moving biography . . . Chernaik pays close attention to the music and summons its inimitable combination of romantic ardour, eccentricity and classical craftsmanship in deft prose." -- Ivan Hewett, lead review in The Daily Telegraph "[An] intimate biography . . . [Chernaik], who betrays a close acquaintance with the composer's oeuvre, offers a very personal take on his life . . . While providing ample discussion of the classical works, [she] eschews technical language and musical notation . . . Highly recommended." --Herbert E. Shapiro , Library Journal "Altogether outstanding. . . . [Schumann's] story is oft-told, but Chernaik's version eclipses its predecessors in two, perhaps three, respects. She has accessed newly released documentation of Schumann's final illness . . . She fills the book with descriptions of Schumann's compositions that are more easily followed and more thorough than most recording liner notes and that convincingly relate each piece to Schumann's life circumstances as well as to his other music . . . The third distinction stems from the fact that Chernaik is also a novelist. She doesn't get bogged down in data or scholarly one-upmanship, her vocabulary is direct and strong, and she keeps the line of Schumann's life ever before us." --Ray Olson, Booklist (starred review) "A guided tour through the life and work of Robert Schumann (1810-1856), a musical genius who viewed the sublime before a decline into syphilitic madness. . . . A sturdy foundation of research and musical knowledge (and love) underlies this inspiring and wrenching account of a man who pursued, captured, and lost." -- Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
Dewey Decimal
780.92
Synopsis
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, Shake-speare 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 medi-cal 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., 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.
LC Classification Number
ML410.S4C37 2018
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