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Meet Robert Schumann, tortured genius of music's Romantic age - and creator of some of the 19th century's most exhilarating music
Biography. Robert Schumann (born 1810 in Zwickau, died 1856 in Bonn-Endenich) Robert Schumann was born on June 8th, 1810 as sixth and last child of wealthy parents in Zwickau, where the family moved to few years before from Ronneburg, Thuringia. His father, August Schumann (1773-1826) was a novelist and published trading compendia concerning.
The following is a list of compositions by Robert Schumann for piano solo and for pedal piano solo. [note 1] Schumann was a pianist himself and wrote over fifty works for the piano, numbering hundreds of constituent pieces and movements. Because his first 26 published works were all written for solo piano, the first ten years of Schumann's ...
Aug 28, 2019 · Since Schumann more or less stopped composing after Robert’s early death in 1856, when he was 46 and she was only 37, her oeuvre is relatively small — just 23 published works — and comprises ...
May 23, 2018 · Schumann, Robert (Alexander), great German composer of surpassing imaginative power whose music expressed the deepest spirit of the Romantic era, husband of Clara (Josephine) Schumann (née Wieck ); b. Zwickau, June 8, 1810; d. Endenich, near Bonn, July 29, 1856. He was the fifth and youngest child of a Saxon bookseller, who encouraged his ...
Piano Concerto in A Minor, Op. 54, three-movement concerto for piano by German composer Robert Schumann that premiered in Dresden on December 4, 1845. The work was written for—and premiered by—Clara Wieck Schumann, his wife, who was considered to be one of the great pianists of the day. An early.
Robert Schumann, (born June 8, 1810, Zwickau, Saxony—died July 29, 1856, Endenich, near Bonn, Prussia), German composer. Son of a bookseller, he considered becoming a novelist. Under family pressure he reluctantly entered law school, but he devoted his time to song composition and piano lessons. An injury to one of his fingers put an end to ...
