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a| Niecks, Frederick,
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a| Robert Schumann /
c| by Frederick Niecks ; edited by Christina Niecks.
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a| London and Toronto :
b| J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd.,
a| New York :
b| E. P. Dutton & Co.,
c| 1925.
300
a| xiii, 1 leaf, 336 pages :
b| frontispiece (portrait), music ;
c| 23 cm.
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a| unmediated
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a| volume
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a| Dent's international library of books on music
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a| Includes index.
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a| "List of the published works of Robert Schumann": pages 306-323.
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t| Robert Schumann's father, August Schumann (1773-1826).
g| Birth ;
g| Education and business apprenticeships ;
g| Literary endeavours ;
g| Marriage (1795) ;
g| Final settlement as bookseller and publisher at Zwickau --
t| Birth of Robert Schumann.
g| His birthplace Zwickau: notes geographical, historical, and social --
t| Influence on Robert Schumann of his father and mother respectively.
g| Family friends ;
g| Robert's early general and musical education and achievements ;
t| Kuntzsch ;
g| Death of August Schumann --
t| Robert Schumann finishes his studies at the lyceum.
g| Survey of his educational equipment ;
g| Rudderless --
g| Still rudderless.
t| Trip with Rosen to Bayreuth, etc. ;
g| University life at Leipzig, Easter 1828 to Easter 1829 ;
g| Friends and music ;
t| Wiedebein ;
t| Pianoforte lessons with Wieck --
t| Friedrich Wieck (1785-1873).
g| Birth and education ;
g| Personality ;
t| Teaching method --
t| Diligence from Leipzig to Frankfurt-on-the-Main: stay of a few days at Frankfurt, a short tour on the Rhine, arrival at Heidelberg on May 21, 1829.
g| Three terms at Heidelberg (summer 1829 to autumn 1830), with autumn holiday in Switzerland and Northern Italy, 1829 ;
t| Thibaut ;
t| Paganini ;
g| Receives his mother's permission about August 1830 to exchange law for music ;
g| After a visit to the lower Rhine, returns in autumn 1830 to Leipzig to devote himself entirely to music --
t| Schumann's constitutional weakness in money management.
t| The first serious music studies after abandonment of law.
g| Pianoforte playing under Friedrich Wieck and its premature and disastrous interruption, ending with the laming of the right hand ;
t| Composition under Heinrich Dorn with likewise regrettable abrupt conclusion --
g| His musical and literary companions, acquaintances, friends, and the Leipzig musical milieu generally --
t| Jean Paulism and romanticism.
t| Ludwig, Schunke, pianist and composer ;
t| Henriette Voigt and her husband, Carl Voigt ;
t| Founding of the Neue Zeitschrift fur Musik, April 1834 ;
t| The "Davidsbundler" --
t| Schumann's compositions, op. 1 to op. 5, and op. 10.
g| Reception by the music critics of his early publications ;
g| Losses by death of relatives ;
g| His health ;
t| Ernestine von Fricken, a love affair --
t| Mendelssohn and Schumann: their intercourse and influence on each other.
t| Contemporary virtuosi and composers: Moscheles, David, Sterndale Bennett, etc. --
t| Schumann's compositions, op. 6 to op. 17.
t| Further contemporary composers and virtuosi: Hirschbach, Verhulst, Gade, Chopin, Henselt, Thalberg, Liszt, etc. --
t| Robert's struggle for Clara Wieck (1836 to 1840): Wieck's opposition.
g| Carl Banck ;
g| Clara's Vienna, etc., concert tour (October 1837 to May 1838) ;
g| Robert's Vienna visit (September 1838 to March 1839) ;
g| Clara an exile in Paris (February to August, 1839) ;
g| Robert and Clara decide to appeal to law (June 1839) ;
g| Obstacles at last overcome ;
g| Marriage, September 12, 1840 ;
t| Schumann's compositions, opp. 18-23, op. 26, op. 28, and op. 32 --
t| The second period of Schumann's compositions: the song year, 1840.
g| The Schumann pair after the marriage ;
t| Founding of the Leipzig conservatorium, 1843 ;
t| More of Liszt than Thalberg ;
g| Some singers --
t| The symphony year, 1841.
t| The chamber music year, 1842 ;
t| Op. 46 and op. 50, 1843 ;
g| The Russian tour ;
g| Schumann gives up editorship of the Neue Zeitschrift fur Musik ;
g| His health breaks down ;
g| Removal from Leipzig to Dresden, December 1844 --
g| Dresden (1844-1850).
t| Wagner and Schumann ;
t| Ferdinand Hiller and other artists ;
t| Op. 54 ;
t| Faust ;
t| Manfred --
t| The C major symphony.;
t| Opp. 56, 58, 60, 72, and further Dresden compositions ;
g| Schumann's health ;
g| Dresden reminiscences --
g| From Dresden to Dusseldorf (1850).
g| Enthusiastic reception and auspicious beginnings ;
g| House-hunting trials ;
g| Music (public and private) in Dusseldorf ;
t| Hiller, and Offenbach ;
g| Artist friends --
g| Dusseldorf (1850-1854).
t| Schumann as a conductor ;
g| Different points of view ;
t| Tausch: his position and personality --
g| The official report of the Allgemeine Musikverein by the secretary, the assistant Burgomaster Wilhelm Wortmann --
g| Last years.
g| Hopes and plans ;
t| The coming of Brahms ;
g| Dusseldorf compositions ;
g| Concert tours ;
g| Increasing illness ;
g| Different accounts of the final catastrophe ;
g| Schumann's death at Endenich ;
g| Reminiscences --
g| Appendices.
t| Schumanniana, 1884 --
g| List of Schumann's works, with date of compositions and publication, page references.
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a| Schumann, Robert,
d| 1810-1856.
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a| Niecks, Christina,
e| editor.
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a| Dent's international library of books on music.
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u| 2/9/1986
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o| .STAFF. .note. Temporary transfer #1 to HSL Temporary transfer #2 to HSL
o| .STAFF. enhanced 12/10/21 -jjab