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  1. May 15, 2024 · Robert Schumann, German Romantic composer renowned particularly for his piano music, songs (lieder), and orchestral music. Many of his best-known piano pieces were written for his wife, the pianist Clara Schumann. Learn more about his life and works in this article.

  2. Jun 7, 2010 · Robert Schumann was a German composer and critic born in Zwickau on June 8, 1810. A quirky, problematic genius, he wrote some of the greatest music of the Romantic era, and also some of the...

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  3. Robert Schumann [n 1] ( German: [ˈʁoːbɛʁt ˈʃuːman]; 8 June 1810 – 29 July 1856) was a German composer, pianist, and music critic of the Romantic era. Born to a comfortable middle-class family, Schumann was unsure whether to pursue a career as a lawyer or to make a living as a pianist-composer.

  4. Biography. Robert Schumann (1810–1856) was a German romantic composer and influential music critic. Although Schumann was no child prodigy, he went on to become one of the most important composers of the 19th century and is recognised as such 200 years after his birth. View more. Schumann: the man. Schumann: A Life. Schumann: An Appreciation.

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  6. Jun 20, 2008 · It redirected him to a career in music and introduced him to Clara, who at age 9 was a phenomenal child prodigy, piano virtuoso and composer. Schumann composed primarily for the piano and...

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  7. Robert Schumann - Composer, Romanticism, Music: As a composer Schumann was first and most naturally a miniaturist. Until after his marriage the great bulk of his work—including that by which he is best known—consisted of short piano pieces and songs, two genres so closely related in his case as to be hardly more than two facets of the same.

  8. Meet Robert Schumann, tortured genius of music's Romantic age - and creator of some of the 19th century's most exhilarating music.

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