Some of My Features for the "Rough Guide"

Again, just a few “representative samples” for (I hope) your delectation and delight. Click each one to read and enlarge. ROBERT SCHUMANN Schumann, a middle-class boy from the provinces, occupies one of the key positions in German music. The first Romantic with a deep knowledge of literature and philosophy, he saw it as his mission to fuse the arts, including traditional and modern composition. As a youth he wrote letters (“unsent”, as he admitted) to Schubert: he died a failure in [...]