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Robert Schumann - His Life and Work
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ROBERT SCHUMANN HIS LIFE AND WORK BY HERBERT BEDFORD Publishers HARPER BROTHERS New York and London 1925, y-r Preface METHODS of writing biography may roughly be divided into three classes the voluminous and redundant, the moderate and readable, the chatty and undignified. The first class appeals to what Nietzsche tersely called u learned idlers, the second appeals to cultured people with an adequate amount of leisure, and the third to schoolgirls, frivolous minded persons and those who have no taste for literature other than that which is termed light, In the early and mid-Victorian Age, biographies run ning into three large volumes, heavy to lift and even heavier to read, were the fashion. They were emi nently characteristic of the drab dullness of that fortunately bygone age, their dullness being often accentuated through bowdlerization. Occasionally this type of biography is even to be met with now adays, when people are busier dancing than burning the midnight oil over a ponderous tome. A few years ago the life of a celebrated poet appeared in the biographical arena. This poet was a pronounced dipsomaniac, yet his biographer contrived to write his life from start to finish without even once intro ducing the word soda-water, let alone whiskey Such biographies should come under the heading of fiction, for not only do they fail to fulfil their purpose, but they mislead the public. PREFACE In the following pages Herbert Bedford has been guilty of none of the aforementioned biographical defects. His book belongs to the second and best category the moderate and readable using that word in its best sense. Nor has he been guilty of misrepresenting Schumann, and painting him with a largerand more luminous halo than he in reality possessed. And in making this statement I may perhaps permit myself to add that at the moment I am especially acquainted with the ins and outs of Schumanns life, owing to certain research work I was compelled to pursue in connection with the writing of a book on The Influence of Musk on History and Morals. In that book I attempted to show that Schumanns music exercised a marked influence on the child-mind, and helped towards a greater unity and understanding between parents and children. If this is true as I firmly believe it to be, then Herbert Bedfords book should particularly commend itself to all parents and all lovers of children, as well as to music-lovers in general CYKIL SCOTT, London f May, 1925. ROBKRT SCHUMANN 1810-1856 Contents sr Chapter PREFACE BY CYRIL SCOTT ...... v I INTRODUCTION. A SKETCH OF THE . ROMANTIC MOVEMENT IN THE ARTS . . i II ZWICKAU. BIRTH AND PARENTAGE . . 24 III 1810-1828. ZWICKAU. CHILDHOOD SCHOOL DAYS 3 Johann Gottfried Kuntzsch Ignaz Moscheles The i oth Psalm Lyceum entertainmentsLiter ary ClubDeath of his father and sister Agnes Cams School reading Jean Paul Richter. IV 1828-1829, LEIPZIG BAVARIA LEIPZIG 42 Gottlob Rudel Leipzig preparations Gisbert Rosen Dr. von Kurrer Heinrich Heine Bay reuth- Frau Paul Zwickau Leipzig Marschner Gottlob Wiedebein Friedrich Wieck Clara Wieck Johann Sebastian Bach. V 1829-1830. HEIDELBERG ..... 7 A letter from Zwickau Wilhelm Hanngr-Heidel berg Professor Thibaut Rosen and Semmel Topken Italian TourHeidelberg again Piano study Paganini Piano variations. Opus I The career of pianist decided on End of term Trip down the Rhine Leipzig again. VI 1830-1833. LEIPZIG ...... 73 LeipzigStudies with Friedrich Wieck Damage to hand Career of composer adopted-Heinrich vu CONTENTS Dorn Allegro di BravuraPapillons Rupture with Dorn Six Intermezzi Bachs fugues Sym phony in G begun Carl Friedrich Gunt herJulius Knorr Henrietta Voigt G minor piano sonata Second set of Paganini studies The Toccata fin ished Piano Impromptus Letter to Topken Extract from diary Critique from Wiener Musik alische Zeitung Death of Julius Schumann Roberts illness. VII 1834-1835... |
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