Robert Schumann, Tone Poet Prophet And Critic: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Robert Schumann, Tone Poet Prophet And Critic, credited to Herbert Francis Peyser, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

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LibriVox recording of Robert Schumann, Tone Poet Prophet And Critic by Herbert Francis Peyser. Read in English by David Wales. [This is] the sketchiest outline of Robert Schumann’s short life but amazingly rich achievement. Together with Haydn and Schubert he was, perhaps, the most completely lovable of the great masters. It is hard, moreover, to think of a composer more strategically placed in his epoch or more perfectly timed in his coming. Tone poet, fantast, critic, visionary, prophet—he was all of these! And he passed through every phase, it seemed, of romantic experience. The great and even the semi-great of a fabulous period of music were his intimates—personages like Mendelssohn, Chopin, Liszt, Moscheles, Ferdinand David, Hiller, Joachim, Brahms. He won the woman he loved after a bitter struggle against a tyrannical father-in-law. He created much of the world’s greatest piano music, many of its loveliest songs, four great symphonies, superb chamber compositions and a good deal else. - Summary from Author's Foreword.

Recording facts

• Recording title: Robert Schumann, Tone Poet Prophet And Critic
• Author credits: Herbert Francis Peyser
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 4
• Listed recording duration: 1:31:52

Catalogue topics

• music
• nineteenth century
• Romanticism
• composer
• schumann

Track guide

1. 00 - Foreword — 2:30
2. 01 - Part 1 — 28:34
3. 02 - Part 2 — 25:53
4. 03 - Part 3 — 34:55

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