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3 days ago · The violin virtuoso Joseph Joachim, whom Johannes Brahms befriended in 1853, instantly realized Brahms’s talent and recommended him to the composer Robert Schumann. Schumann praised Brahms’s compositions in the periodical Neue Zeitschrift für Musik. The article created a sensation. From this moment Brahms was a force in the world of music.
1 day ago · Felix Mendelssohn, Robert Schumann, Franz Liszt, Johannes Brahms and other 19th-century composers discovered and championed his works. Today, Schubert is ranked among the greatest composers in the history of Western classical music and his work continues to be admired and widely performed.
2 days ago · Robert Schumann (1810-1856) was the archetypal Romantic composer, a man with unbounded imagination, who mastered almost every genre of his time. His chamber music, which may be regarded as an extension of his piano music, enabled him to explore the construction of his works.
3 days ago · Schumann: Piano Quartet & Piano Quintet. Isabelle Faust (violin), Anne-Katharina Schreiber (violin, Antoine Tamestit (viola), Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello), Alexander Melnikov (piano) The Quintet is a brilliant virtuoso vehicle with a symphonic tone but these five musicians don’t turn it into a quasi-piano concerto with string quartet, as ...
May 20, 2024 · The Meaning. Er, der Herrlichste von allen, which translates to “He, the Most Glorious of All,” is a beautiful song composed by Robert Schumann. The lyrics were written by Adelbert von Chamisso. It is part of the album Frauenliebe und -leben, Op. 42, which was released in 1843. In this song, the protagonist describes their admiration and ...
May 3, 2024 · Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, Cardiff Williams more than rose to the challenge of Schumann’s Kreisleriana and the Op 11 Sonata with playing of clarity and rigour Rian Evans
