Schumann: The Faces and the Masks by Judith Chernaik Paperback Book

Description: Schumann by Judith Chernaik A groundbreaking account of Schumann, a major composer whose music is becoming increasingly popular over the years. FORMAT Paperback CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description 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 Schumanns 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. He turned his tumultuous life into music that speaks directly to the heart, losing none of its power with the passage of time.Drawing on hitherto unpublished archive material, Chernaik sheds new light on Schumanns life and music, his sexual escapades, his fathering of an illegitimate child, the true facts behind his courtship of his wife Clara and the opposition of her monstrous father, and the ways in which the crises of his life, his dreams and fantasies, entered his music. Schumanns troubled relations with his fellow-Romantic composers Mendelssohn and Chopin are freshly explored, and the full medical diary kept at Endenich Asylum, long withheld, enables Chernaik to look again at the mystery of Schumanns final illness. Using her wide experience as a scholar of Romanticism and a novelist, Chernaik vividly brings Schumanns world and his extraordinary artistic achievement to life in all its rich complexity. Author Biography Born in New York, Judith Chernaik now lives in London. She is best known for founding Londons popular Poems on the Underground, which offers poetry of all times and places to a mass audience, a programme which has taken off in cities worldwide.She is the co-editor of anthologies of Poems on the Underground and her other publications include The Lyrics of Shelley, four novels and many essays, reviews and short stories in the TLS, Guardian, Times, New York Times,Yale Review, most recently essays on Schumann, Mendelssohn, and Chopin in The Musical Times Promotional A groundbreaking account of Schumann, a major composer whose music is becoming increasingly popular over the years. Long Description A groundbreaking account of Schumann, a major composer whose music is becoming increasingly popular over the years. 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 Schumanns 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. He turned his tumultuous life into music that speaks directly to the heart, losing none of its power with the passage of time. Drawing on hitherto unpublished archive material, Chernaik sheds new light on Schumanns life and music, his sexual escapades, his fathering of an illegitimate child, the true facts behind his courtship of his wife Clara and the opposition of her monstrous father, and the ways in which the crises of his life, his dreams and fantasies, entered his music. Schumanns troubled relations with his fellow-Romantic composers Mendelssohn and Chopin are freshly explored, and the full medical diary kept at Endenich Asylum, long withheld, enables Chernaik to look again at the mystery of Schumanns final illness. Using her wide experience as a scholar of Romanticism and a novelist, Chernaik vividly brings Schumanns world and his extraordinary artistic achievement to life in all its rich complexity. Promotional "Headline" A groundbreaking account of Schumann, a major composer whose music is becoming increasingly popular over the years. Details ISBN0571331270 Author Judith Chernaik Publisher Faber & Faber Year 2021 ISBN-10 0571331270 ISBN-13 9780571331277 Publication Date 2021-10-07 UK Release Date 2021-10-07 Format Paperback Imprint Faber & Faber Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom AU Release Date 2021-10-07 Pages 368 Subtitle The Faces and the Masks Edition Description Main DEWEY 780.92 Audience General NZ Release Date 2021-11-29 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:133344386;

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