{"product_id":"schumann-the-faces-and-the-masks","title":"Schumann: The Faces and the Masks","description":"\u003cp\u003eDrawing on previously unpublished sources, this groundbreaking biography of Robert Schumann sheds new light on the great composer's life and work.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, \u003ci\u003eSchumann\u003c\/i\u003e shows how this extraordinary artist turned his tumultuous life into music that speaks directly--and timelessly--to the heart.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Judith Chernaik","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46048972210245,"sku":"BS-LIB-974254","price":23.92,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2482\/2494\/files\/9781101974254-HD.jpg?v=1792331335","url":"https:\/\/libros787.com\/products\/schumann-the-faces-and-the-masks","provider":"Libros787.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}