Clara Schumann: An Artist's Life Based on Material Found in Diaries and Letters - Vol I

by Berthold Litzmann

Book Overview

The reproach is commonly brought against musical biographies that they are monotonous: and indeed the life of the musician has not often afforded much scope for incident or variety. If he be a composer he treads the accustomed course of early struggles, hard-earned victories and posthumous fame: if he be a virtuoso his career is one triumphal progress which leaves little to record except the successive trophies that he has planted and the successive...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1406759066
• ISBN13: 9781406759068
• Release Date: May 2007
• Publisher: Litzmann Press
• Length: 528 Pages
• Weight: 1.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.5" x 8.5"