Robert Schumann's Advice to Young Musicians - Revisited by Steven Isserlis

Informationen zum Autor Steven Isserlis enjoys a unique and multi-faceted career as soloist, chamber musician and educator. He appears regularly with the world's leading orchestras, gives recitals every season in major musical centres, devises fascinating chamber music programmes, performs with many period-instrument ensembles, plays and writes for children, and works with many living composers. He has written two children's books, and gives masterclasses worldwide. For the past eighteen years he has been Artistic Director of the International Musicians' Seminar at Prussia Cove, Cornwall. Klappentext The cellist Steven Isserlis adds his own commentary to Schumann's nineteenth century text "Advice To Young Musicians", applying a modern context to Schumann's practical and profound tips from 1848. Zusammenfassung 'No musician or music lover should be without it.' BBC Music MagazineRobert Schumann was far ahead of his time: his music anticipated a multitude of trends that would spread in the 150 years after his death, and almost every major composer who followed him acknowledged his influence.

Product details

• Authors: Steven Isserlis, Isserlis Steven
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 05.03.2020
• EAN: 9780571355686
• ISBN: 978-0-571-35568-6
• No. of pages: 112
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 6 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > General, dictionaries; Individual composers & musicians, specific bands & groups, MUSIC / Individual Composer & Musician, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Classical, Romanticism, Composers and songwriters, Art music, orchestral and formal music