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Robert Schumann: The Life and Work of a Romantic Composer Hardback - 2012

by Martin Geck; Stewart Spencer (Translator)

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Robert Schumann (1810-56) is one of the most important and representative composers of the Romantic era. Born in Zwickau, Germany, Schumann began piano instruction at age seven and immediately developed a passion for music. When a permanent injury to his hand prevented him from pursuing a career as a touring concert pianist, he turned his energies and talents to composing, writing hundreds of works for piano and voice, as well as four symphonies and an opera. Here acclaimed biographer Martin Geck tells the fascinating story of this multifaceted genius, set in the context of the political and social revolutions of his time. The image of Schumann the man and the artist that emerges in Geck's book is complex. Geck shows Schumann to be not only a major composer and music critic--he cofounded and wrote articles for the controversial Neue Zeitschrift fr Musik­­--but also a political activist, the father of eight children, and an addict of mind-altering drugs. Through hard work and determination bordering on the obsessive, Schumann was able to control his demons and channel the tensions that seethed within him into music that mixes the popular and esoteric, resulting in compositions that require the creative engagement of reader and listener. The more we know about a composer, the more we hear his personality in his music, even if it is above all on the strength of his work that we love and admire him. Martin Geck's book on Schumann is not just another rehashing of Schumann's life and works, but an intelligent, personal interpretation of the composer as a musical, literary, and cultural personality.

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  • Title Robert Schumann: The Life and Work of a Romantic Composer
  • Author Martin Geck; Stewart Spencer (Translator)
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 320
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Ill
  • Publication date 2012-11
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780226284699 / 0226284697
  • Weight 1.25 lbs (0.57 kg)
  • Dimensions 9 x 6 x 1.1 in (22.86 x 15.24 x 2.79 cm)
  • Category Biography / Autobiography
  • Library of Congress subjects Composers - Germany, Schumann, Robert
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2012007981
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

About the author

Martin Geck is professor of musicology at the Technical University of Dortmund. He is the author of more than two dozen books, including Johann Sebastian Bach: Life and Work. Stewart Spencer is an independent scholar and the translator of more than three dozen books.

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