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Trade Paperback 496 pages. Condition Very Good Issued with NO Dust Jacket. Stated First paperback edition 2010. Elegant illustrated wraps show off this Clean, tight, square copy with no marks, highlights or bookplates. Book Well kept and carefully stored in unread condition. Slight shelf wear with a few scrapes, wrinkles and chips. Not an ex-library, book club or remainder copy.Shattering longstanding myths, this new biography reveals the robust and positive life of one of the nineteenth century's greatest composersThis candid, intimate, and compellingly written new biography offers a fresh account of Robert Schumann's life. It confronts the traditional perception of the doom-laden Romantic, forced by depression into a life of helpless, poignant sadness.
John Worthen's scrupulous attention to the original sources reveals Schumann to have been an astute, witty, articulate, and immensely determined individual, who—with little support from his family and friends in provincial Saxony—painstakingly… Read More