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Paul Driver: Robert Schumann, 21 February 2008
Robert Schumann: Life and Death of a Musician
by John Worthen.
Yale, 496 pp., £25, July 2007,978 0 300 11160 6 Show More
by John Worthen.
Yale, 496 pp., £25, July 2007,
The Cambridge Companion to Schumann
edited by Beate Perrey.
Cambridge, 302 pp., £19.99, June 2007,978 0 521 78950 9 Show More
edited by Beate Perrey.
Cambridge, 302 pp., £19.99, June 2007,
Schumann’s Late Style
by Laura Tunbridge.
Cambridge, 246 pp., £50, October 2007,978 0 521 87168 6 Show More
by Laura Tunbridge.
Cambridge, 246 pp., £50, October 2007,
“... on Schumann’s debt to Romantic aesthetics, particularly as epitomised by the novels of Johann Paul Friedrich Richter (Jean Paul). Nicholas Marston, writing on Schumann’s heroes Schubert, Beethoven and Bach, quotes the 19-year-old composer telling Wieck: ‘when I play Schubert, it’s as if I were reading a novel ... ”