Schumann : the faces and the masks
Chernaik, Judith2018
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'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.
Main title:
Schumann : the faces and the masks / Judith Chernaik.
Author:
Chernaik, Judith, author
Imprint:
London : Faber & Faber, 2018.
Collation:
xiv, 349 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 24 cm
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9780571331260 (hbk. :)
Dewey class:
780.92B SCHB
Language:
English
BRN:
1858804
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