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Schumann - The Faces and the Masks (Paperback, Main)
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Schumann - The Faces and the Masks (Paperback, Main)
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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 Schumann's 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 Drawing on hitherto unpublished archive material, Chernaik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 Schumann's 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. Schumann's 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 Schumann's final illness. Using her wide experience as a
scholar of Romanticism and a novelist, Chernaik vividly brings
Schumann's world and his extraordinary artistic achievement to life
in all its rich complexity.
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