Schumann (Master Musicians Series)


Printed:	2001	Author:	Eric Frederick Jensen
Publisher:	Oxford University Press	ISBN:	0195135660
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Amazon Review
The Caged Bird May or May Not Sing, June 22, 2001
Reviewer: T. Mattern from Syracuse, NY
SCHUMANN is a work of sound and thorough scholarship, refreshingly free of cant, pomposity, bombast, condescension, self-aggrandizement and arrogance, six pillars in the temple of bad academic writing. Mr. Jensen's thoughtful prose is eminently readable, his argument clear and convincing thanks in no small part to a masterly balancing of distance from and sympathy for his primary subject. The plight of temperament (in Schumann's case, genius) in conflict with ignorance, incomprehension, complacent professionalism and "benign" authoritarianism continues to be a matter of interest and concern. Who or what today would keep Schumann in a cage?