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Robert Schumann : the life and work of a romantic composer / Martin Geck ; translated by Stewart Spencer.

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Main Author: Geck, Martin
Other title:Robert Schumann. English
Format: Book
Language:English
German
Published: Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, ©2013.
Subjects:
Schumann, Robert, > 1810-1856.
Composers > Germany > Biography.
Table of Contents:
  • Early years (1810-28)
  • Intermezzo I. An awkward age
  • Student years (1828-34)
  • Intermezo II. Figments of the imagination
  • The Neue Zeitschrift für Musik
  • The early piano pieces
  • Intermezzo III. "No, what I hear are blows"
  • Probationary years in Leipzig (1835-40)
  • The "year of song" (1840)
  • Intermezzo IV. Twilight
  • Married life in Leipzig
  • visit to R ussia (1840-44)
  • Intermezzo V. The magic of allusions
  • Schumann as a public figure in the years before the March Revolution of 1848
  • Intermezzo VI. In modo d'una marcia
  • The Dresden years (1845-50)
  • Intermezzo VII. Genoveva is not Lohengrin
  • Director of Music in Düsseldorf (1850-54)
  • Intermezzo VIII. The road to freedom
  • The late works
  • Intermezzo IX. "A sugary Saxon"?
  • Endenich (1854-56)

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