BESTSELLING PIANO GUIDE: ADVICE TO YOUNG MUSICIANS (Worldwide Bestseller) by ROBERT SCHUMANN [Influence on Brahms, Liszt, Elgar, Mendelssohn, Wagner and Many Others] NOOKBook by Robert Schumann Classical Music Press Nook Edition

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BESTSELLING PIANO GUIDE: ADVICE TO YOUNG MUSICIANS (Worldwide Bestseller)
by ROBERT SCHUMANN

[Influence on Brahms, Liszt, Elgar, Mendelssohn, Wagner and Many Others)
NOOKBook

by Robert Schumann Classical Music Press

This enormously influential short guide was written by the great Romantic composer and pianist, and was initially intended to form part of his Album for the Young, op. 68.

Hailed as both a masterpiece of concision, wit and wisdom this little book has inspired and influenced countless generations of musicians and listeners alike.


EXCERPTS

"Endeavour to play easy pieces well and with elegance; that is better than to play difficult pieces badly."

"Play always as if in the presence of a master."

"Let your intimate friends be chosen from such as are better informed than yourself."

"What is it to be musical? You will not be so, if your eyes are fixed on the notes with anxiety and you play your piece laboriously through; you will not be so, if (supposing that somebody should turn over two pages at once) you stop short and cannot proceed. But you will be so if you can almost foresee in a new piece what is to follow, or remember it in an old one,--in a word, if you have not only music in your fingers, but also in your head and heart."

Product Details

BN ID:	2940013017238
Publisher:	Classical Music Press
Publication date:	12/11/2011
Series:	Music Musicianship Piano Sheet Music and Advice Robert Schumann Advice to a Young Musician Nook NOOKBook
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	199 KB

About the Author

Robert Schumann, sometimes known as Robert Alexander Schumann,[2] (8 June 1810 – 29 July 1856) was a German composer, aesthete and influential music critic. He is regarded as one of the greatest and most representative composers of the Romantic era. Schumann left the study of law to return to music, intending to pursue a career as a virtuoso pianist. He had been assured by his teacher Friedrich Wieck that he could become the finest pianist in Europe, but a hand injury caused by a device he created to develop the strength and independence of his fingers ended this dream. One of the most promising careers as a pianist had thus come to an end. Schumann then focused his musical energies on composing.

Schumann's published compositions were written exclusively for the piano until 1840; he later composed works for piano and orchestra; many lieder (songs for voice and piano); four symphonies; an opera; and other orchestral, choral, and chamber works. His writings about music appeared mostly in the Neue Zeitschrift für Musik (New Journal for Music), a Leipzig-based publication which he jointly founded.

In 1840, Schumann married pianist Clara Wieck, daughter of his former teacher, when she legally came of age at 21. They no longer needed her father's consent, which had been the subject of a long and acrimonious legal battle. Clara also composed music and had a considerable concert career.