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

by Geck, Martin.

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Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, c2013.

Schumann, Robert, 1810-1856.

Composers -- Germany -- Biography.

9780226284699 (cloth : alkaline paper)

0226284697 (cloth : alkaline paper)

xiii, 304 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

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 Russia (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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