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The presentation is excellent, aimed at the intelligent music-lover, but equally it is important in many ways to the established specialist in 19th century Romanticism Musical Opinion Magazine

The presentation is excellent, aimed at the intelligent music-lover, but equally it is important in many ways to the established specialist in 19th century Romanticism * Musical Opinion Magazine *

""The reader is left not only educated musically, but saddened, mesmerized, horrified, and disgusted by the treatment Schumann received.... It's a tale of latent feminism, music history, and mental illness all wrapped into one. There's plenty of technical description for the musician reader, complete with musical examples that can be played or sung. There's plenty more for someone who can't read music but likes a rich life story of a complex human being who happened to be a musician.""--Boston Globe ""The presentation is excellent, aimed at the intelligent music-lover, but equally it is important in many ways to the established specialist in 19th century Romanticism. Anyone looking for their first book on Schumann could not do better than obtain this title, which will stand them in good stead for the rest of their lives."" --Musical Opinion ""A valuable addition to Schumann research at the turn of the millennium. Best of all, it is a readable, thoughtful account, especially concerning the composer's relationships with his wife, Clara; his contemporaries; and the surrounding musical community...Recommended."" --Choice

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Eric Frederick Jensen taught at Denison University and the University of Illinois. He has published widely on 19th- and early 20th-century music, including in The Journal of Musicology, The Musical Quarterly, The Musical Times, and Music & Letters. His book, Walls of Circumstance, examined the work of eleven little known 19th-century composers.

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