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In English

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Allman, Barbara. Her Piano Sang: A Story About Clara Schumann. Illus. by Shelly O. Haas. Carolrhoda Books, 1997, 63 pp. [The Lerner Group, 241 First Avenue North, Minneapolis, MN 55401. Review by Stephanie Wendt.]
Ashby, Ruth, and Deborah Gore Ohrn, eds. Herstory: Women Who Changed the World. Introduction by Gloria Steinem. New York: Viking, 1995. [Rsch: HQ1121 .H47 1995; Clara Schumann, pp.104-105; for short essays on many others, see full reference.]
Booth, Dee. "The Teaching Style of Clara Schumann." Clavier 35:10 (December 1996): 23. [Abstract: In the centennial year of Clara Schumann's death we should remember her interest in the personal and musical lives of her students, despite her stern appearance during lessons.]
Burk, John N. Clara Schumann: A Romantic Biography. New York: Random House, 1940. [MUSIC: ML417.S3 B87; a good read.]
Chissell, Joan. Clara Schumann: A Dedicated Spirit: A Study of her Life and Work. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1983. [MUSIC: ML417.S3 C44; great pictures.]
Chissell, Joan. Schumann. The Master Musicians Series. 5th ed. London: J. M. Dent & Sons, Ltd., 1989. [MUSIC: Frontlog: ABG0949; a bit dry; for Robert's life and music; good appendices.]
Citron, Marcia J. "Women and the Lied: 1775-1850." Chapter in Women Making Music, ed. by Jane Bowers and Judith Tick. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1985. [MUSIC and RSCH: ML82.W67 1986]
Daverio, John. Robert Schumann: Herald of a "New Poetic Age." New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. [607 pp., $45.00, call number ML410.S4B38; Much on Clara; selected chapters: Musical Love Letters in the Higher and Smaller Forms; Fierce Battles and Blissful Songs; Musical Dramatist.]
De La Vars, Gordon. "'It is the Very Air I Breathe:' The Practice of Art in the Life of Clara Schumann." Chapter in Images of the Self as Female: The Achievement of Women Artists in Re- envisioning Feminine Identity. Ed. by Kathryn N. Benzel and Lauren Pringle De La Vars. Lewiston: Edwin Mellen Press, 1992. [RSCH: NX180.F4 I44 1990]
Fang, Siu-Wan Chair. "Clara Schumann as teacher." Graduate thesis, Graduate College, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 1978. [96 leaves: Microfilm of typescript. Ann Arbor, Mich.: University Microfilms, c1978. -- 1 reel, 35 mm. "List of compositions with Clara Schumann's markings:" with Discography.]
Harding, Bertita. Concerto: the story of Clara Schumann. London, G. G. Harrap <1962, c1961> [MUSIC LIBRARY ML417 .S3 H35 1962]
Litzmann, Berthold. Clara Schumann: An Artist's Life, Based on Material Found in Diaries and Letters. Translated and abridged from the 4th edition by Grace E. Hadow. 2 vols. New York: Vienna House, 1972. [MUSIC: ML417.S3 L78; all you'd ever want to know.]
Neumayr, Anton. Music and Medicine. Vol. 2. Trans. by Bruce Coooper from Musik und Medizin. Bloomington, IL: Medi-Ed Press, 1994- [Vol. 2 covers Robert & Clara Schumann, but also includes Hummel, Weber, Mendelssohn, Brahms, and Bruckner; MUSIC LIBRARY ML390.N41 M8; to buy]
New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. 2nd Ed. (2001) S.v. “Schumann, Clara,” by Nancy B. Reich. [vol. 22, pp. 754-758]
Ostwald, Peter. Schumann: The Inner Voices of a Musical Genius. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1985. [MUSIC: ML410.S4 O78; U.K. Gollancz edition entitled: Schumann, Music and Madness; a Great read; hard to put down; a psycho-history of Robert; explores the depths and details of his travails; much on Clara and the family as well.]
Reich, Nancy B. Clara Schumann: The Artist and the Woman. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1985. [MUSIC: ML417.S3 R44]

Reich, Nancy B. “Schumann, Clara,” in New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. 2nd Ed. New York: Grove, 2001. [vol. 22, pp. 754-758]

Reich, Nancy B. Clara Schumann: The Artist and the Woman. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2001 [ISBN: 0395891191, $18.00, Ages 8 and up, written in consultation with her mother, Nancy B. Reich, musicologist and author of Clara Schumann: The Artist and the Woman] Alphacraze - AllDirect - Amazon -BarnesandNoble - Bigwords -BooksAMillion - Borders

eich, Susanna. Clara Schumann: Piano Virtuoso. Clarion Books, 1999. [ISBN: 0395891191, $18.00, Ages 8 and up, written in consultation with her mother, Nancy B. Reich, musicologist and author of Clara Schumann: The Artist and the Woman] Alphacraze - AllDirect - Amazon -BarnesandNoble - Bigwords -BooksAMillion - Borders

Rosen, Charles. The romantic generation. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1995. [Chapters on Schubert, mountains, song cycles; Chopin; Liszt; Berlioz; Mendelssohn's religious music; Romantic Opera; SCHUMANN, Beethoven, CLARA, ETA Hoffmann; MUSIC: ML196 .R67 1995]
Schauffler, Robert Haven. Florestan; the life and work of Robert Schumann. New York, Dover Publications <1963, c1945> [574 p.]
Schumann, Ferdinand. Reminiscences of Clara Schumann as Found in the Diary of Her Grandson Ferdinand Schumann of Dresden. Ed. by June M. Dickinson. Rochester: Schumann Memorial Foundation, 1949. [MUSIC: ML417.S3 S3; "probably translated and condensed from the author's 'Erinnerunger an Clara Schumann,' serially published in NZfM."]
Silverman, Robert. "Robert Silverman Reports on a Seminar that Examined the Music and Lives of Clara Schumann and Fanny Hensel." Piano & Keyboard: The Bimonthly Piano Quarterly 183 (November 1, 1996): 30-.
Smith, David Kenneth. "Clara Schumann and the Clara'96 Campaign: Making a Great Man of a Woman." International Alliance for Women in Music Journal 2 (June 1996): 8-11. Complete and unabridged version.
Stein, Deborah Jane. Poetry into Song: Performance and Analysis of Lieder. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996. [Call number MT110.S74, 413pp, $35.00; Foreword by Elly Ameling; Chapter 10 includes: 'Settings of "Liebst du um Schönheit" by Clara Schumann and Gustav Mahler,' with scores of both in the appendix.]
Süsskind, Pamela Gertrude. "Clara Wieck Schumann as Pianist and Composer: A Study of Her Life and Works." 2 vols. Ph.D. diss., University of California, Berkeley, 1977. [MUSIC: ML417.S3 S97; great source for Clara's life and music; second volume contains scores only, including 15 songs from Opp. 12, 13, and 23.]
Todd, R. Larry, ed. Schumann and his world. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, c1994. [396 p.; MUSIC LIBRARY ML410.S4 S3]
Walker, Nancy. "A Stylistic Analysis of Selected Lieder of Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel and Clara Wieck Schumann." D.M. diss., Indiana University, 1988. [RSCH and MUSIC: MZ4.W189]

In German

Appel, Bernhard R., Inge Hermstruwer, Gerd Nauhaus unter Mitarbeit von Ute Bar, eds. Clara und Robert Schumann: Zeitgenossische Portrats: Katalog zur Ausstellung des Heinrich-Heine-Instituts, Dusseldorf und des Robert-Schumann-Hauses in Zwickau, in Verbindung mit der Robert-Schumann-Gesellschaft, Dusseldorf (7. Juni-24. Juli 1994, Heinrich-Heine-Institut, Dusseldorf ... 4. Dezember 1994-31. Januar 1995, Robert-Schumann-Haus, Zwickau. Dusseldorf: Droste Verlag, 1994. [132 p.]
Bachmann, Luise George. Drei Kronen eines Lebens: Clara Schumanns Schicksalsroman. Graz : Verlag Styria, 1956, c1947. [407 p.; Musical fiction; IU Fort Wayne ML3925.S318 B3 1956.]
Berliner Blumentagebuch der Clara Schumann, 1857-1859 eingeleitet von Renate Hofmann. Wiesbaden: Breitkopf & Härtel, 1991. [131 p.]
Borchard, Beatrix. Robert Schumann und Clara Wieck: Bedingungen kunstlerischer Arbeit in der ersten Halfte des 19. Jahrhunderts. Ergebnisse der Frauenforschung; Bd. 4. Weinheim: Beltz, 1985. [351 p.; MUSIC LIBRARY ML410.S4 B74]
Höcker, Karla. Das Leben von Clara Schumann, geb. Wieck. Mit e. Geleitw. von Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau. Berlin: Klopp, 1988, c1975. [Hoecker, 170 p.]
Klassen, Janina. Clara Wieck-Schumann: die Virtuosin als Komponistin: Studien zu ihrem Werk. Kieler Schriften zur Musikwissenschaft; Bd. 37. Kassel; New York: Barenreiter, c1990. [283 p. Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral) Universitat Kiel, 1988; MUSIC LIBRARY MT92.S23 K63.]
Koch, Paul-August. Clara Wieck-Schumann: (1819-1896): Kompositionen: eine Zusammenstellung der Werke, Literatur und Schallplatten. Frankfurt am Main: Zimmermann; Hofheim am Taunus: F. Hofmeister, c1991. [Thematic catalog. 48 p.; with Discography, MUSIC LIBRARY and MUSIC REFERENCE ML134.S339 A35]
Metzger, Michael M., Erika A. Metzger. Clara und Robert Schumann. German cultural readers. Boston, H. Mifflin Co. <1967>. [75 p.; MUSIC LIBRARY ML410.S4 M5]
Munte, Frank. Verzeichnis des deutschsprachigen Schrifttums uber Robert Schumann 1856-1970. Anhang: Schrifttum uber Clara Schumann. Hamburg, Verlag der Musikalienhandlung K. D. Wagner, 1972. [151 p.; Bibliography; MUSIC LIBRARY Reference ML134.S34 M8]
Quednau, Werner. Clara Schumann, roman. S. Mohn <1961> [269 p.; Musical fiction.]
Schiedermair, Ludwig Ferdinand. Clara Schumann: Frauenliebe u. Leben: aus Tagebuchern u. Briefen: nach d. Biographie von Berthold Litzmann. Munchen; Wien: Langen-Muller, 1978. [229 p., MUSIC LIBRARY ML417.S3 S28]
Sutermeister, Peter. Robert Schumann: Eine Biographe nach Briefen, Tagebuchern und Erinnerunger von Robert und Clara Schumann. Tubingen: Heliopolis, 1982. [MUSIC: ML410.S4 S9; in German.]
Wasielewski, Wilhelm Joseph von. Robert Schumann: Eine Biographie. Mit den Medaillons von Robert und Clara Schumann. Zweite verb. Aufl. Dresden: R. Kunze, 1869. [403 p.; Blgtn MUSIC LIBRARY Vault ML410.S4 W2]
Weissweiler, Eva. Clara Schumann: eine Biographie. Hamburg: Hoffmann und Campe, 1990. [396 p.]

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