Robert Schumann : life and death of a musician / John Worthen.
Språk: Engelska Utgivning: New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, 2007Beskrivning: xi, 496 p., [14] p. of plates ill., maps 24 cmISBN:- 0300111601
- 9780300111606
- 780.92 22
- ML410.S4
- Ijz Schumann, Robert
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Early years -- Clara Wieck -- Marriage and career -- Ending
This candid, intimate, and compellingly written new biography offers a completely 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. 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 background 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 his father-in-law. Schumann was neither manic depressive nor schizophrenic, though he struggled with financial problems and 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 an incurable disease. Worthen's biography effectively demystifies a figure frequently regarded as a Romantic enigma.