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by: Robert Schumann Dewey Decimal Number: 780.9034 EAN: 9780486257488 Edition: annotated edition ISBN: 0486257487 Label: Dover Publications Manufacturer: Dover Publications Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 208 Publication Date: September 01, 1988 Publisher: Dover Publications Studio: Dover Publications Related Items:
Editorial Review: Product Description: Includes 61 important critical pieces Schumann wrote for the Neue Zeitschrift fur Musik, 1834â1844. Perceptive evaluations of Beethoven, Chopin, Schubert, other giants; also Spohr, Moscheles, Field, other minor masters. Annotated. Average Rating:
Rating:  - Review of Schumann on MusicThis book represents a wonderful cross section of Schumann's writings on his philosophy of music and critiques of specific works. Schumann, in addition to being a talented composer, was a gifted writer whose style will appeal to a wide variety of readers and whose ideas on music and musical style are as applicable today as they were in his time. His early tendency to present his ideas via conversations between the characters of the Davidsbund is extremely entertaining. This book also gives great insight into Robert Schumann the man, the musician/composer, and the philosopher/critic. Rating:  - Talk about gaining fresh perspectives of the past!It is very difficult for us to see and understand the present as a confluence of a vast array of tributaries from the past. To us it appears as the single world. It certainly has constituent parts, but we cannot readily apprehend what has been discarded and forgotten or why the things extant were remembered. The past has a flatness to it that only diligent and attentive study can remedy. Unfortunately, in music, we are forgetting almost everything because the current conglomeration of commercial activities we label music has so little in common with what the artists of the past were interested in creating and performing. If you want evidence for my claim, you simply need to pick ... Read More Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display |
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