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Clara Schumann: Volume 2: An Artist's Life, Based on Material Found in Diaries and Letters
Clara Schumann (1819–1896), child prodigy, celebrated concert pianist, composer, and friend of Brahms, was also the wife of composer Robert Schumann. Her father Friedrich Wieck's implacable opposition to their marriage, the sublime music she inspired in Schumann and his tragic death at a cruelly young age underlie one of music's great romances. The German literary historian Berthold Litzmann (1857–1926) first published his biography in three volumes between 1902 and 1908, based on the diaries and letters of Robert and Clara Schumann. Appearing in 1913, this two-volume English translation by Grace Hadow (1875–1940) is an abridged version of the German fourth edition, offering a lucid portrait of a central figure in nineteenth-century European musical life. A preface is provided by the translator's elder brother, William Henry Hadow (1859–1937), the music historian. Volume 2 covers the years 1850 to 1896.
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Clara Schumann: Volume 2: An Artist's Life, Based on Material Found in Diaries and Letters
Clara Schumann (1819–1896), child prodigy, celebrated concert pianist, composer, and friend of Brahms, was also the wife of composer Robert Schumann. Her father Friedrich Wieck's implacable opposition to their marriage, the sublime music she inspired in Schumann and his tragic death at a cruelly young age underlie one of music's great romances. The German literary historian Berthold Litzmann (1857–1926) first published his biography in three volumes between 1902 and 1908, based on the diaries and letters of Robert and Clara Schumann. Appearing in 1913, this two-volume English translation by Grace Hadow (1875–1940) is an abridged version of the German fourth edition, offering a lucid portrait of a central figure in nineteenth-century European musical life. A preface is provided by the translator's elder brother, William Henry Hadow (1859–1937), the music historian. Volume 2 covers the years 1850 to 1896.
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Clara Schumann: Volume 2: An Artist's Life, Based on Material Found in Diaries and Letters

Clara Schumann: Volume 2: An Artist's Life, Based on Material Found in Diaries and Letters

Clara Schumann: Volume 2: An Artist's Life, Based on Material Found in Diaries and Letters

Clara Schumann: Volume 2: An Artist's Life, Based on Material Found in Diaries and Letters

Overview

Clara Schumann (1819–1896), child prodigy, celebrated concert pianist, composer, and friend of Brahms, was also the wife of composer Robert Schumann. Her father Friedrich Wieck's implacable opposition to their marriage, the sublime music she inspired in Schumann and his tragic death at a cruelly young age underlie one of music's great romances. The German literary historian Berthold Litzmann (1857–1926) first published his biography in three volumes between 1902 and 1908, based on the diaries and letters of Robert and Clara Schumann. Appearing in 1913, this two-volume English translation by Grace Hadow (1875–1940) is an abridged version of the German fourth edition, offering a lucid portrait of a central figure in nineteenth-century European musical life. A preface is provided by the translator's elder brother, William Henry Hadow (1859–1937), the music historian. Volume 2 covers the years 1850 to 1896.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781108064163
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 09/05/2013
Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Music
Pages: 484
Product dimensions: 5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 1.00(d)

Table of Contents

Author's preface to vol. 2; Misprints; 1. Autumn tints 1850–4; 2. Night 1854; 3. The last echo 1854–6; 4. Wanderjahre 1856–63; 5. 14 Lichtenthaler Allee, Baden-Baden 1863–73; 6. 11 in den Zelten, Berlin, 1873–8; 7. 32 Myliusstrasse, Frankfort, 1878–96; List of compositions; Works studied and repertoire; Index.
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