Forced by a hand injury to abandon a career as a pianist, Robert Schumann went on to become one of the world's great composers. Among many works, his Spring Symphony (1841), Piano Concerto in A Minor (1841/1845), and the Third, or Rhenish , Symphony (1850) exemplify his infusion of classical forms with intense, personal emotion. His musical influence continues today and has inspired many other famous composers in the century since his death. Now, in Robert Schumann: Herald of a "New Poetic Age ," John Daverio presents ...
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Forced by a hand injury to abandon a career as a pianist, Robert Schumann went on to become one of the world's great composers. Among many works, his Spring Symphony (1841), Piano Concerto in A Minor (1841/1845), and the Third, or Rhenish , Symphony (1850) exemplify his infusion of classical forms with intense, personal emotion. His musical influence continues today and has inspired many other famous composers in the century since his death. Now, in Robert Schumann: Herald of a "New Poetic Age ," John Daverio presents the first comprehensive study of the composer's life and works to appear in nearly a century. This well-researched study of Schumann interprets the composer's creative legacy in the context of his life and times, combining nineteenth-century cultural and intellectual history with a fascinating analysis of the works themselves.
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VG-/VG (shelf-wear to boards; few small scores to back board. cloth spine scuffed. rubbing, crinkling spine ends; top bumped. speckled & blotched foxing to textblock edges. dustjacket spine ends crinkled & creased; creasing to corners; foxing to... Pink boards w/ burgundy quarter cloth spine, silver printing. book xi, 607 pgs w/ bw illustrations. purple & tan illustrated dustjacket w/ protective plastic cover. Foxing remnants to page edges, otherwise pages remain bright. "In Robert Schumann: Herald of a "New Poetic Age, " John Daverio presents the first comprehensive study of the composer's life and works to appear in nearly a century. Long regarded as a quintessentially romantic figure, Schumann also has been portrayed as a profoundly tragic one: a composer who began his career as a genius and ended it as a mere talent. Daverio takes issue with this Schumann myth, arguing instead that the composer's entire creative life was guided by the desire to imbue music with the intellectual substance of literature. A close analysis of the interdependence among Schumann's activities as reader, diarist, critic, and musician reveals the depth of his literary sensibility. Drawing on documents only recently brought to light, the author also provides a fresh outlook on the relationship between Schumann's mental illness-which brought on an extended sanitarium stay and eventual death in 1856-and his musical creativity."--WorldCat.
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