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Clara Schumann: The Artist and the Woman
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 786.2092
EAN: 9780801486371
Edition: Revised
ISBN: 0801486378
Label: Cornell University Press
Manufacturer: Cornell University Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 385
Publication Date: 2001-06
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Studio: Cornell University Press
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Rating: - A marvelous book about a remarkable woman
This book is intended to be a gift for my grand daughter, Clara Elisabeth Schumann. But first I am reading it myself. What a woman!
Rating: - The Artist and the Woman - a MUST READ For Many Reasons
Author Nancy Reich's scholarship is impeccable, her research, comprehensive, and her passion for accuracy, uncompromising.
This is a completely thorough and compelling biography which reads as smoothly as an easy novel. It is powerful and sensitive; objective and personal. Dr. Reich's depth as a scholar and skill as a writer provide us with a rarely-, possibly never-seen view of this extraordinary woman, Clara Wieck Schumann.
Clara's life was fraught with pain, sorrow, ... Read More
Rating: - Tortured Virtuosa, Talented Writer
Nancy B. Reich certainly did her homework while writing the revised edition of Clara Schumann: The Artist and the Woman. Her resources include translations from primary texts in her native German, as well as other primary sources from the important friends in her life. She updated the 1985 version of the book in 2001 to include "a variety of significant documents-letters, medical reports, and music-that were in private hands and unavailable when [she] was working on the first edition". These ... Read More
Rating: - Truly fine biography
Reich's beautifully written, thoroughly researched and objective book is certainly the best biography on Clara Weick Schumann in English. It is also one of the finest biographies I have read of any subject by any author.
From her childhood as a piano virtuoso through her 50 year performing career, Schumann was an international star of the concert stage, a composer and champion of the composers close to her, a woman who astounded and compelled those who knew her, a legend in her own time. ... Read More
Rating: - A gem of a biography--don't miss it!
This revised edition of Clara Schumann's biography by Nancy Reich is a gem. Not only is the scholarship impeccable and thorough, but the talented writing engages and fascinates the reader at every turn.
Features of this wonderful new edition include the use of new medical reports that have come to light regarding Robert Schumann's illness; reference to recently discovered letters and diaries that further elucidate Clara's friendships with people like Emilie List, Frederic Chopin, and the Mendelssohns; ... Read More
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