Robert Schumann: Life and Death of a Musician

This candid, intimate and compellingly written biography offers a fresh account of Robert Schumann's life and effectively demystifies a figure frequently regarded as a Romantic enigma. Freeing Schumann from 150 years of mythmaking and unjustified psychological speculation, it reveals him, for the first time, as a brilliant, passionate, resolute musician and a thoroughly creative human being, the composer of arguably the best music of his generation.