“Winner of the ASCAP Deems Taylor Award, CLARA
SCHUMANN:
THE ARTIST AND THE WOMAN has become a classic since its publication
in
1985. For this new edition Nancy B. Reich has added several
photographs
and updated the text to include recent discoveries. She has also
prepared a
Catalogue of Works that includes all of Clara Schumann’s known
published and
unpublished compositions and works she edited, as well as descriptions
of the
autographs, the first editions, the modern editions, and recent
literature on
each piece. The Catalogue also notes Schumann’s performances of her own
music
and provides pertinent quotations from letters, diaries, and
contemporary
reviews.”
And a note from the author: “I believe this is the most complete
up-to-date Catalogue available. For this new edition, I examined every
one of the autographs that are still extant as well as all the
editions. The list I gave in my article on Clara Schumann in the
Revised New Grove (vol 22, pp.754-758) was not as complete as this,
partly because of constraints of Grove's. I think readers
of your website will be particularly interested in the excerpts about
each piece culled from letters to Robert, to friends, and to her
publisher as well as the translated excerpts from reviews.”
Reich, Nancy B. Clara
Schumann: The Artist and the Woman.
Revised Edition. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2001.
[ISBN: 0801437407 (cloth), 0801486378 (pbk.),
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