Robert Schumann was one of the most enigmatic figures of his age. Extraordinarily gifted in both music and literature, his fame was based both on his skill as a music critic and as a composer. His life was controversial-from the tempestuous courtship of his future wife, Clara Wieck, to his tragic incarceration in the mental asylum where he died. This new edition of Schumann is based on recently-published sources that provide new dating for many of his compositions, and shed new light on his final years.
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Robert Schumann was one of the most enigmatic figures of his age. Extraordinarily gifted in both music and literature, his fame was based both on his skill as a music critic and as a composer. His life was controversial-from the tempestuous courtship of his future wife, Clara Wieck, to his tragic incarceration in the mental asylum where he died. This new edition of Schumann is based on recently-published sources that provide new dating for many of his compositions, and shed new light on his final years.
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Add this copy of Schumann (Master Musicians Series) to cart. $10.00, good condition, Sold by Conover Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Martinsville, VA, UNITED STATES, published 2001 by Oxford University Press.
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Good in Good jacket. 1st Printing. 8vo-over 7¾-9¾" tall. pp. 388. Minor edge and corner wear to the dj; lightly scuffed and scratched; corners are lightly bumped and rubbed; some light shelf wear; ex-library with the usual library markings; overall a nice used copy! Black boards quarterbound by orange with silver lettering on the spine. 388 informative and educational pages! "Although Pedro Calderón de la Barca was one of the greatest and most prolific playwrights of Spain's Golden Age, most of his nonallegorical comedias? 118 in all-have remained unknown. Robert ter Horst presents here the first full-length study of these works, a sustained, meditative analysis dealing with more than 80 plays, conveying a sense of the whole of Calderón's secular theater. To approach so vast a body of literature, Mr. ter Horst examines the meaning and function in Calderón of three broad subjects-myth, honor, and history-the warp threads across which the playwright weaves a subtle tapestry of contrasts, dualities, and conflicts: the private person versus the public person, the inner realm versus the outer, masculine against feminine, poet against prince. The Calderón who emerges is a consciously consummate artist whose lifelong study was the passions of the human mind and body. In addition, he is seen as a synthesizer of his Spanish literary heritage and especially as a brilliant adapter of Cervantes' insights to the stage. Robert ter Horst's profound and far-ranging analysis sheds light on many fine works previously neglected and finds new depths in such supreme achievements as No hay cosa como callar, El segundo Escipión, and La vida es suefio...."
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