Robert Schumann - Life and Death of a Musician

Informationen zum Autor John Worthen was Professor of D. H. Lawrence Studies at the University of Nottingham. His books include The Gang: Coleridge, the Hutchinsons and the Wordsworths in 1802 and D. H. Lawrence: The Life of an Outsider . He lives in Nottingham, England, and in Germany. Klappentext A biography that offers a fresh account of Robert Schumann's life. It confronts the traditional perception of the doom-laden Romantic, forced by depression into a life of helpless, poignant sadness. It frees Schumann from one hundred and fifty years of myth-making and unjustified psychological speculation. Zusammenfassung A biography that offers a fresh account of Robert Schumann's life. It confronts the traditional perception of the doom-laden Romantic! forced by depression into a life of helpless! poignant sadness. It frees Schumann from one hundred and fifty years of myth-making and unjustified psychological speculation.

Product details

• Authors: John Worthen, John (University of Nottingham) Worthen, Worthen John
• Publisher: Yale University Press Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 02.03.2010
• EAN: 9780300163988
• ISBN: 978-0-300-16398-8
• No. of pages: 496
• Dimensions: 158 mm x 235 mm x 38 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies; Individual composers & musicians, specific bands & groups, MUSIC / Individual Composer & Musician, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Classical, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Biography: arts & entertainment, Romanticism, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Music, Composers and songwriters, Biography: arts and entertainment, Romantic Music (C 1830 To C 1900), Art music, orchestral and formal music