{"product_id":"schumann-the-faces-and-the-masks","title":"Schumann: The Faces and the Masks","description":"\u003ch1\u003eSchumann: The Faces and the Masks\u003c\/h1\u003eJudith Chernaik\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group\u003cbr\u003eAugust 13 2019\u003cbr\u003eEAN: 9781101974254\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 1101974257\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eItems marked as \u003cb\u003eWAREHOUSE\u003c\/b\u003e may take additional time to be delivered to your address or picked up in the store.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSynopsis: Drawing on previously unpublished sources, this groundbreaking biography of Robert Schumann sheds new light on the great composer's life and work.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.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"27th Letter Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67392545751085,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0673\/3588\/0749\/files\/original_39d15292-2bbb-47ec-85f5-7776628bfd57.jpg?v=1787364536","url":"https:\/\/27thletterbooks.com\/products\/schumann-the-faces-and-the-masks","provider":"27th Letter Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}