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| Contents |
Part I. The man -- Small-town wonder-child -- Robinson Crusoe -- The spendthrift -- Lawyer into musician -- The crippled hand -- Clara Wieck -- Clara and the stumbling blocks -- Ernestine -- Diamond facets -- Swans are really larger geese -- Stay true -- Treasure trove -- Bringing rapture -- The beautiful brown Danube -- The malice of father Wieck -- Boomerang -- The year of song -- The symphony year -- The year of chamber music -- Danger signals -- Kettledrums and trumpets -- But he loves me -- Alarumss and excursions -- As long as daylight lasts -- Welcome to the Phine -- "Rhenish" Symphony -- Calm before storm -- The ring and the river -- Schumanndammerung -- Intermezzo: The man of letters -- Part II. The music -- Music for Piano -- The piano sonatas and Fantasie -- More piano music -- The last piano music -- Piano music for more than ten fingers -- The songs -- The symphonist -- The symphonies -- The concertos -- Choral works and opera -- The chamber music -- The string quartets -- The Piano Quartet and Quintet -- What makes Schumann's music Schumannian? -- Some books by and about Schumann -- The compositions of Robert Schumann -- Recorded works of Schumann -- Genealogy -- Index I: General -- Index II: Schumann's instrumental works -- Index III: Schumann's vocal works. |
| Abstract |
Biography of Schumann with, as its second half, an account of Schumann's music with bibliography, record list and indexes. |
| Local note | Little-14230- |
| Bibliography note | "Some books by and about Robert Schumann": pages 503-505. "The compositions of Robert Schumann": pages 515-532. "Recorded works of Robert Schumann": page 533-538. |
| LCCN | 45007949 |
