The Life and Works of Robert SchumannG. Bell, 1900 - 276 pages |
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... expression in those works of this period which are to come under our consideration later on . In harmony with this peculiar process of development , his individuality is far more strongly marked in his early works than is usually the ...
... expression in those works of this period which are to come under our consideration later on . In harmony with this peculiar process of development , his individuality is far more strongly marked in his early works than is usually the ...
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... expression of the feeling which now animated him . Not until that event occurred which prevented his farther prosecution of the career of a virtuoso - when his right hand was entirely lamed in the autumn of 1831 - did he feel the ...
... expression of the feeling which now animated him . Not until that event occurred which prevented his farther prosecution of the career of a virtuoso - when his right hand was entirely lamed in the autumn of 1831 - did he feel the ...
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... expression . They ac- customed themselves to consider everything on the vastest scale of dimensions , in the broadest relations , so that in their hands even the song became a scena , and the lesser instrumental forms the mere frame for ...
... expression . They ac- customed themselves to consider everything on the vastest scale of dimensions , in the broadest relations , so that in their hands even the song became a scena , and the lesser instrumental forms the mere frame for ...
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... expression than vocal composition , but moreover it , and it only , rendered possible such honest , palpable representation and reproduction as Schumann attempted in certain of his earliest works . The tendency to place all his work ...
... expression than vocal composition , but moreover it , and it only , rendered possible such honest , palpable representation and reproduction as Schumann attempted in certain of his earliest works . The tendency to place all his work ...
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... writing , as well as such an eloquent means of expressing the whole romantic subjectivity . Passages like the fol- lowing : Ped . Ped . * cres cen do . were in direct opposition to the laws of. 56 THE LIFE AND WORKS OF R. SCHUMANN .
... writing , as well as such an eloquent means of expressing the whole romantic subjectivity . Passages like the fol- lowing : Ped . Ped . * cres cen do . were in direct opposition to the laws of. 56 THE LIFE AND WORKS OF R. SCHUMANN .
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