This candid, intimate, and compellingly written new biography offers a fresh account of Robert Schumanna??s life. It confronts the traditional perception of the doom-laden Romantic, forced by depression into a life of helpless, poignant sadness. John Worthena??s scrupulous attention to the original sources reveals Schumann to have been an astute, witty, articulate, and immensely determined individual, who?with little support from hisA family and friendsA in provincial Saxony?painstakingly taught himself his craft as a musician, overcame problem after problem in his professional life, and married the woman he loved after a tremendous battle with her father. Schumann was neither manic depressive nor schizophrenic, although he struggled with mental illness. He worked prodigiously hard to develop his range of musical styles and to earn his living, only to be struck down, at the age of forty-four, by a vile and incurable disease. A Worthena??s biography effectively de-mystifies a figure...

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