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Clara Schumann, a dedicated spirit : a study of her life and work / by Joan Chissell.
Van Pelt - Albrecht Music Library ML417.S4 C5 1983b
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LIBRA - Athenaeum of Philadelphia Circulating ML417.S4 C5 1983b
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Chissell, Joan.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Schumann, Clara, 1819-1896.
- Schumann, Clara.
- Pianists--Germany--Biography.
- Pianists.
- Women pianists.
- Germany.
- Women pianists--Germany--Biography.
- Composers--Germany--Biography.
- Composers.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Catalogs.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 232 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Taplinger Pub. Co., 1983.
- Contents:
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Her father's daughter: 1819-27
- On the Leipzig platform: 1827-30
- Out into the world: 1830-32
- First pangs: 1832-35
- Professional triumphs, personal vacillations: 1835-38
- Love's victory: 1838-40
- Counter-claims: 1840-42
- Reconciliation: 1842-44
- Settling in Dresden: 1845-47
- To stay or leave? 1847-50
- Düsseldorf: 1850-54
- Anguish: 1854-56
- A new start: 1856-63
- At home and abroad: 1863-73
- Berlin trials: 1873-79
- The Frankfurt teacher and editor: 1879-88
- Ebbing powers: 1888-96
- Appendices. 'Little verses to Clara, from R.S., 1838'
- Clara's jubilee, 1878: an appreciation by Fanny Davies
- Clara's message to her children about Brahms
- Her compositions
- Her foreign concert tours
- Index.
- Notes:
- "A Crescendo book."
- Includes index.
- "Clara's compositions": pages 219-220.
- ISBN:
- 0800816242 :
- OCLC:
- 10113303
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