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Article: Robert Schumann: Eine Lebenschronik in Bildern und Dokumenten.(Review)
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Robert Schumann: Eine Lebenschronik in Bildern und Dokumenten. By Ernst Burger. (Neue Ausgabe samtilicher Werke. Serie VIII, Supplemente; Band 1.) Mainz: Schott, 1999. [355 p. ISBN 3-7957-0343-3. $149.]
This is the third picture book Ernst Burger has produced on a single composer. The other two, Franz Liszt: A Chronicle of His Life in Pictures and Documents, translated by Stewart Spencer (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1989), and Frederic Chopin: Eine Lebenschronik in Bildern und Dokumenten (Munich: Hirmer, 1990), were reviewed in these pages by Michael Saffle (Notes 47 [1991]: 1133-35) and Jeffrey Kallberg (Notes 50 [1994]: 963-64), respectively. The ...