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Schumann, Clara
2 Reviews
(4)
YA
Classical Composers series.
Clara Schumann, along with managing a tumultuous relationship with her father and tending to her erratic husband and their eight often-ill children, was able to maintain a career as a world-renowned concert pianist (and composer) for over six decades. The information in this thorough volume could be better organized, but it's engaging nonetheless. Archival artwork supports the text. Timeline, websites. Bib., ind.
Reviewer: Rebecca Hachmyer
(2)
4-6
This thoroughly researched book draws on primary sources, both Clara's own diaries and her voluminous correspondence with her husband (more comfortable writing than speaking to each other, she and her husband maintained a joint diary) and other musicians of the times. Reich's lucid, quietly passionate biography is liberally illustrated with photographs and reproductions. Ind.
Reviewer: Susan P. Bloom
| Horn Book Magazine Issue:
March, 1999
2 reviews
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