Schumann: The Faces and the Masks by Chernaik, Judith
Schumann: The Faces and the Masks by Chernaik, Judith

Schumann: The Faces and the Masks

Drawing on previously unpublished sources, this groundbreaking biography of Robert Schumann sheds new light on the great...
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Author: Judith Chernaik
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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Schumann: The Faces and the Masks by Chernaik, Judith

Schumann: The Faces and the Masks

$29.44
Schumann: The Faces and the Masks by Chernaik, Judith

Schumann: The Faces and the Masks

$29.44
Author: Judith Chernaik
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description
Drawing on previously unpublished sources, this groundbreaking biography of Robert Schumann sheds new light on the great composer's life and work.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.

Author: Judith Chernaik
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 08/13/2019
Pages: 384
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.10w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9781101974254

About the Author
Judith Chernaik was born and grew up in Brooklyn. She graduated from Cornell University and received a Ph.D. from Yale University. She has taught at Columbia, Tufts, and Queen Mary College in London. Her books include The Lyrics of Shelley and four novels. She has also written a play, and most recently has published essays on Robert Schumann, Clara Schumann, Mendelssohn, and Chopin in the British academic journal The Musical Times.

She and her husband, Warren Chernaik, have been living in London for the last forty years, where she founded Poems on the Underground, which under various names, has since spread all over the world.
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