The book Schumann was written by author Fuller-Maitland, J. A. (John Alexander), 1856-1936 Here you can read free online of Schumann book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is Schumann a good or bad book?
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Straightforward enough it is, and less freaked (sic) by uglinesses than is usual with him ; but in tbree of the four movements the ideas are worn and stale, not to say frivolous. . . . That which should be grand is only heavy, — that which should be brilliant is only bustling, — that which should flow, stagnates. . . . On the whole, unpleasing pre- tention hiding real poverty occurs to us as the general character of this quintet." In the spring of the year in which her husband died, Madame Schu...mann paid a visit to England, and played, among other things, his Duet for two pianos with Sterndale Bennett, and his pianoforte Concerto. One of the critics, who was always good enough to admire the lady's playing, approved to some extent of the Duet, but spoke, in criticizing the Concerto, of the " efibrts of the gifted lady to make her husband's SCHUMANN AND HIS CRITICS. 129 curious rhapsody pass for music," and called "many of the bravura passages utterly extravagant." The reader who has felt the charm of the cross-rhythm in the finale of this work will be surprised to hear, from another critic, of " the rondo (sic) to his piano Concerto, where the monotonous limping of the second subject, in place of piquing the ear, harasses it by producing an effect of lameness which retards the animation of the movement." In the way of sweeping assertions, the following are unsurpassed; they occur in a criticism on the Overture, Scherzo, and Finale (op.
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