Download or read book Clara Schumann written by Nancy Reich and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2013-07-15 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This absorbing and award-winning biography tells the story of the tragedies and triumphs of Clara Wieck Schumann (1819–1896), a musician of remarkable achievements. At once artist, composer, editor, teacher, wife, and mother of eight children, she was an important force in the musical world of her time. To show how Schumann surmounted the obstacles facing female artists in the nineteenth century, Nancy B. Reich has drawn on previously unexplored primary sources: unpublished diaries, letters, and family papers, as well as concert programs. Going beyond the familiar legends of the Schumann literature, she applies the tools of musicological scholarship and the insights of psychology to provide a new, full-scale portrait.The book is divided into two parts. In Part One, Reich follows Clara Schumann's life from her early years as a child prodigy through her marriage to Robert Schumann and into the forty years after his death, when she established and maintained an extraordinary European career while supporting and supervising a household and seven children. Part Two covers four major themes in Schumann's life: her relationship with Johannes Brahms and other friends and contemporaries; her creative work; her life on the concert stage; and her success as a teacher.Throughout, excerpts from diaries and letters in Reich's own translations clear up misconceptions about her life and achievements and her partnership with Robert Schumann. Highlighting aspects of Clara Schumann's personality and character that have been neglected by earlier biographers, this candid and eminently readable account adds appreciably to our understanding of a fascinating artist and woman.For this revised edition, Reich has added several photographs and updated the text to include recent discoveries. She has also prepared a Catalogue of Works that includes all of Clara Schumann's known published and unpublished compositions and works she edited, as well as descriptions of the autographs, the first editions, the modern editions, and recent literature on each piece. The Catalogue also notes Schumann's performances of her own music and provides pertinent quotations from letters, diaries, and contemporary reviews.
Download or read book Clara Schumann Volume 2 written by Berthold Litzmann and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-09-05 with total page 485 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published in 1913, a two-volume biography, in English translation, of the celebrated concert pianist, teacher and wife of composer Robert Schumann.
Download or read book Clara Schumann written by Susanna Reich and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2005 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the life of the German pianist and composer who made her professional debut at age nine and who devoted her life to music and to her family.
Download or read book Clara Schumann Studies written by Joe Davies and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-12-02 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Develops a holistic and gender-aware understanding of Clara Schumann as pianist, composer and teacher in nineteenth-century Germany.
Download or read book Letters of Clara Schumann and Johannes Brahms 1853 1896 written by Clara Schumann and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Clara Schumann written by Berthold Litzmann and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Becoming Clara Schumann written by Alexander Stefaniak and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2021-11-02 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Well before she married Robert Schumann, Clara Schumann was already an internationally renowned pianist, and she concertized extensively for several decades after her husband's death. Despite being tied professionally to Robert, Clara forged her own career and played an important role in forming what we now recognize as the culture of classical music. Becoming Clara Schumann guides readers through her entire career, including performance, composition, edits to her husband's music, and teaching. Alexander Stefaniak brings together the full run of Schumann's concert programs, detailed accounts of her performances and reception, and other previously unexplored primary source material to illuminate how she positioned herself within larger currents in concert life and musical aesthetics. He reveals that she was an accomplished strategist, having played roughly 1,300 concerts across western and central Europe over the course of her six-decade career, and she shaped the canonization of her husband's music. Extraordinary for her time, Schumann earned success and prestige by crafting her own playing style, selecting and composing her own concerts, and acting as her own manager. By highlighting Schumann's navigation of her musical culture's gendered boundaries, Becoming Clara Schumann details how she cultivated her public image in order to win over audiences and embody some of her field's most ambitious aspirations for musical performance.
Download or read book Clara Schumann written by Berthold Litzmann and published by London : Macmillan ; Leipzig : Breitkopf & Härtel. This book was released on 1913 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Clara Schumann written by Berthold Litzmann and published by . This book was released on 2013-04-07 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Was Clara Schumann a Fag Hag written by David Watkin and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Clara Schumann An Artist s Life Based on Material Found in Diaries and Letters Vol II written by Berthold Litzmann and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2011-03-23 with total page 527 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1913. The subject itself, and the material for this third volume, were not without their influence on the pace of the work. In one place in her diary, Clara writes: In an artist's life, as in every other, things repeat themselves more or lass, so that there if much on which I barely touch. If she herself is her diary feels a certain monotony in the externals of a life which goes on in the same groove year after year, naturally the biographer, who has to represent forty such years, is still more conscious of it. But though it was plain from the first that on no account was each one of Clara's tours to be followed in her diary from place to place; yet, on the other hand, the positive side of the work was by no means so clearly defined. For in these isolated, constantly recurring episodes lay the chief meaning of her life.
Download or read book Clara Schumann Volume 1 written by Berthold Litzmann and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-09-05 with total page 535 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published in 1913, a two-volume biography, in English translation, of the celebrated concert pianist, teacher and wife of composer Robert Schumann.
Download or read book Chamber Music written by Robert Schumann and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1981-01-01 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A selection of unabridged works from 'Serie IV. F'ur Streichinstrumente' and 'Serie V. F'ur Pianoforte und andere Instrumente' of the Collected Works Edition (Robert Schumann's Werke. Herausgegeben von Clara Schumann), originally published by Breitkopf & H'artel"--T.p. verso.
Download or read book Letters of Clara Schumann and Johannes Brahms 1853 1896 written by Johannes Brahms and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Complete Correspondence of Clara and Robert Schumann written by Clara Schumann and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Schumann written by Judith Chernaik and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2018-09-18 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on previously unpublished sources, this groundbreaking biography of Robert Schumann sheds new light on the great composer’s life and work. With the rigorous research of a scholar and the eloquent prose of a novelist, Judith Chernaik takes us into Schumann’s nineteenth-century Romantic milieu, where he wore many “masks” that gave voice to each corner of his soul. The son of a book publisher, he infused his pieces with literary ideas. He was passionately original but worshipped the past: Bach and Beethoven, Shakespeare and Byron. He believed in artistic freedom but struggled with constraints of form. His courtship and marriage to the brilliant pianist Clara Wieck—against her father’s wishes—is one of the great musical love stories of all time. Chernaik freshly explores his troubled relations with fellow composers Mendelssohn and Chopin, and the full medical diary—long withheld—from the Endenich asylum where he spent his final years enables her to look anew at the mystery of his early death. By turns tragic and transcendent, Schumann shows how this extraordinary artist turned his tumultuous life into music that speaks directly—and timelessly—to the heart.
Download or read book Clara Schumann s Piano Notebook written by Gail Smith and published by Mel Bay Publications. This book was released on 2020-10-12 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents seven piano solos that represent the wonderful variety of compositions by Clara Schumann. The brilliant “Polonaise” was composed and performed by Clara as a child prodigy. The enchanting “Prelude, Op. 16, No. 2”, and “Romance, Op. 21. No.2” are both beautiful and suitable for many occasions. The joyful “Mazurka” makes a great recital piece as well as “Scherzo” in C minor. “Nocturne in F, Op. 6, No. 2" is one of the most beautifully written nocturnes. Chopin once told Clara that she was the only woman in Germany that could play his music. She may have been inspired to compose this piece after performing many of Chopin's works in her concerts. The final piece in this collection of Clara Schumann’s Piano Notebook is her “Theme and Variations”, which she dedicated to Robert Schumann. Robert composed and published many variations of his own on Clara's theme. Her own variations remained unknown until recently. These variations are very interesting, and the theme is easily recognizable throughout. “Theme and Variations” truly showcases Clara’s unique sense of creativity. These piano selections are presented as examples of Clara Schumann's legacy–a great composer of the 19th century. Her music is timeless and must be preserved for future generations of pianists. This collection will be valuable for recitals, programs and your own enjoyment.
