Charles Rosen Quote

Schumann is the most representative musical figure of central European Romanticism as much because of his limitations as because of his genius: in his finest works, indeed, he exploited these limitations in such a way that they gave a force to his genius that no other contemporary could attain.


Ch. 12 : Schumann: Triumph and Failure of the Romantic Ideal - The Romantic Generation (1995)


Schumann is the most representative musical figure of central European Romanticism as much because of his limitations as because of his genius: in...

Schumann is the most representative musical figure of central European Romanticism as much because of his limitations as because of his genius: in...

Schumann is the most representative musical figure of central European Romanticism as much because of his limitations as because of his genius: in...

Schumann is the most representative musical figure of central European Romanticism as much because of his limitations as because of his genius: in...