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Longing

Against a backcloth of early 19th century Europe in cultural and political turmoil, this vivid account of the love of the composer Robert Schumann for pianist Clara Wieck unfolds. Drawing on his protagonists' letters and journals, JD Landis spins a compelling tale of Robert and Clara's passion, enforced separation, marriage and the eventual love triangle created by the devotion to Clara of Schumann's pupil Johannes Brahms. With a supporting cast that includes Chopin, Liszt, Goethe, Mendelssohn, Kierkegaard, Paganini and Hans Christian Andersen, he builds a rich narrative of musical genius, des.

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  • "Against a backcloth of early 19th century Europe in cultural and political turmoil, this vivid account of the love of the composer Robert Schumann for pianist Clara Wieck unfolds. Drawing on his protagonists' letters and journals, JD Landis spins a compelling tale of Robert and Clara's passion, enforced separation, marriage and the eventual love triangle created by the devotion to Clara of Schumann's pupil Johannes Brahms. With a supporting cast that includes Chopin, Liszt, Goethe, Mendelssohn, Kierkegaard, Paganini and Hans Christian Andersen, he builds a rich narrative of musical genius, des."@en
  • "Against a backcloth of early 19th century Europe in cultural and political turmoil, this vivid account of the love of the composer Robert Schumann for pianist Clara Wieck unfolds."@en
  • "A novel that recreates the Romantic era and weaves into the lives of the Schumanns such figures as Goethe, Heine, Paganin, and Brahms."@en
  • "Longing tells the story of the greatest artistic couple in history, Robert Schumann and Clara Wieck. They met when she was eight years old and he was seventeen, drawn together first by music and then by their passion for each other. Drawing on their letters and remarkably frank journals, J.D. Landis writes of Clara and Robert & rsquo;s enforced separations, their marriage, their artistic triumphs and failures, and finally their shared devotion to, and love for, a young genius who both came between them and brought them together for the last time. Longing was a New York Times Notable Book. It was also named by The Guardian (London) as the second finest novel about music (the first being Thomas Bernhard & rsquo;s Loser, a judgment with which Mr. Landis is delighted to concur)."@en
  • "Against a backcloth of early 19th century Europe in cultural and political turmoil, this vivid account of the love of the composer Robert Schumann for pianist Clara Wieck unfolds. Drawing on his protagonists' letters and journals, JD Landis spins a compelling tale of Robert and Clara's passion, enforced separation, marriage and the eventual love triangle created by the devotion to Clara of Schumann's pupil Johannes Brahms. With a supporting cast that includes Chopin, Liszt, Goethe, Mendelssohn, Kierkegaard, Paganini and Hans Christian Andersen, he builds a rich narrative of musical genius, desire, obsession and madness. Longing is a powerful romantic tale played out amidst the flowering of German romanticism, combining the anatomy of a lifelong love affair with a journey through one of Europe's most vital periods of artistic creativity."@en
  • ""Clara Wieck met Robert Schumann when she was eight years old and he was seventeen, and in time they would seduce each other and the world. Their love affair was famous, fervent, and ultimately tragic, and it blossomed during a time when passion and music were the stuff of life itself."--Jacket."@en
  • ""Clara Wieck met Robert Schumann when she was eight years old and he was seventeen, and in time they would seduce each other and the world. Their love affair was famous, fervent, and ultimately tragic, and it blossomed during a time when passion and music were the stuff of life itself."--Jacket."

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  • "Biographical fiction"
  • "Biographical fiction"@en
  • "Historical fiction"
  • "Historical fiction"@en
  • "History"
  • "History"@en
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Love stories"@en
  • "Belletristische Darstellung"
  • "Historical"@en
  • "Musical fiction"@en
  • "Musical fiction"

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  • "Longing"
  • "Longing"@en
  • "Sehnsucht ein Robert-Schumann-Roman"
  • "Sehnsucht : ein Robert-Schumann-Roman"
  • "Sehnsucht : Roman"
  • "Struggimento"
  • "Struggimento"@it

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