Schumann: The Inner Voices of a Musical Genius
After obtaining access to long sought-after archival material about the final years of Robert Schumann, Lise Deschamps Ostwald, the author's widow, is finally able to detail the composer's last years at the mental institution in Endenich, fulfilling her husband's original intent.
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New and Expanded Edition with a Foreword by Kurt Masur
List of IllustrationsForeword to the New Edition Kurt Masur Masur, KurtPreface to the New Edition Lise Deschamps Ostwald Ostwald, Lise DeschampsPreface to the Original EditionI Crisis, 1854 1II A Vulnerable Personality, 1809-1828 11III Challenges and Opportunities, 1828-1829 33IV Metamorphosis, 1829-1830 49V A New Beginning, 1830-1831 63VI Cumulative Stresses, 1831-1833 81VII Breakdown and Aftermath, 1833-1835 99VIII The Road to Maturity, 1835-1837 117IX Symbolic Union with Clara, 1837-1839 133X Delays before Marriage, 1839-1840 151XI Harmony and Discord, 1840-1844 165XII Engulfing Depression, 1844-1845 191XIII Plateau, 1845-1849 203XIV Trouble on the Horizon, 1849-1852 229XV Incipient Madness, 1852-1854 251XVI Endenich, 1854-1856 273XVII The Problem of Diagnosis 295XVIII Endenich Revisited Lise Deschamps Ostwald Ostwald, Lise Deschamps 309Notes 345Bibliography 387Index of Musical Works 399Index 405
\ From the Publisher"Schumann is a remarkable piece of work.Soberly and objectively, it unearths information that no previous Schumann researcher--in English at least--has come near duplicating."--Harold C. Schonberg, The New York Times\ "Peter Ostwald, a San Francisco psychiatrist who is also a trained musician, has dug deeply . . . and applied his professional knowledge to the fashioning of a fascinating, perceptive psychobiography of the nineteenth-century Romantic master." --Arthur Hepner, Boston Globe\ "Ostwald . . . offers new insights into one about whom the musical world has never ceased wondering."--Robert Commanday, San Francisco Chronicle\ \ \
