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Sep 13, 2019 · Power woman of classical music: Clara Schumann. Rick Fulker. 09/13/2019. Two centuries after her birth, the composer, critic, impresario, pianist, celebrity, mother and Robert Schumann's wife ...
May 25, 2024 · What a life! Clara Wieck was born in Leipzig in 1819, the daughter of a piano teacher and a dealer in musical instruments. She soon enjoyed a reputation as a child prodigy in the international music world. Robert Schumann, who was ten years older, met her while she was still a child. Their marriage produced eight children.
- A talented pianist and composer. Clara Schumann, born Clara Wieck, is considered one of the most talented and distinguished composer–pianists of the Romantic era.
- Child prodigy. Starting young, she was a child prodigy. Her father made her practise for two hours a day alongside her daily piano, violin, singing, theory, harmony, composition and counterpoint lessons.
- Music in the family. Her father, Friedrich Wieck, was a famous German piano teacher. It was thanks to him that Clara studied music from such a young age.
- Trendsetter – Playing from memory. At the tender age of 13, Clara was one of the first pianists to perform from memory. This has now become standard practice for most professional pianists.
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- Clara Schumann’s Piano Concerto
- Piano Romances
- Transcriptions of ‘Widmung’ and ‘Mondnacht’
- Piano Sonata in G Minor
- Three Romances
- “She’s Not Lost …But I Think She Needed to Be Rediscovered.”
Central to Isata Kanneh-Mason’s debut album, Romance, devoted to Clara Schumann’s music, is one of her most famous works: the Piano Concerto, begun when she was only 13. She gave its premiere in the Leipzig Gewandhaus aged 16, conducted by Felix Mendelssohn. It incorporates some startlingly original touches, including a cello solo in the slow movem...
The Piano Romances Op. 11 were written in 1839 while Clara Schumann was on tour in Paris. Robert Schumann published the second one as a supplement to his journal, the Neue Zeitschrift Für Musik. The following year Robert and Clara were married at last – after a long battle with Clara’s father, who had opposed the match and done all that he could to...
Isata Kanneh-Mason has included on her album Clara Schumann’s transcriptions of two of her husband’s best-loved songs, ‘Widmung’ (‘Dedication’) and ‘Mondnacht’ (‘Moonlit Night’). “The marriage to Robert was a huge part of Clara’s life, and I wanted to reflect that in the programme,” says Kanneh-Mason. “Liszt’s transcription of ‘Widmung’ is better k...
Unlike Robert’s songs, Clara’s Piano Sonata In G Minorlay unpublished until, incredibly, the 1980s. “She wrote it in the early years of her marriage to Robert, as a gift for him,” says Kanneh-Mason. “And it seems he advised against publishing it – though nobody seems sure exactly why. Clara later published the scherzo separately, so it looks as if ...
Clara’s Three RomancesOp. 22 for violin and piano date from 1852-3 and were written for the celebrated violinist Joseph Joachim, a close friend of the Schumanns. It was Joachim who introduced the young Johannes Brahms to their household; during Robert’s long illness and after his death, Brahms became a stalwart support to Clara (whom he loved deepl...
But now, Isata Kanneh-Mason is certain Clara Schumann’s music is here to stay. “I would like to see her music become an established part of the concert repertoire,” she says. Is Clara truly a lost genius? “She’s not lost,” suggests Kanneh-Mason. “But I think she needed to be rediscovered.” Isata Kanneh-Mason’s album Romance: The Piano Music Of Clar...
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The audience welcomed her enthusiastically when she stepped onto the platform. “It was deeply moving when the slightly stooped, 70-year-old woman sat down at the piano to play Chopin’s F minor Concerto. The way she then accomplished the difficult task, with the power, fire and freshness of a seventeen-year-old, left nothing at all to be ...
Making a Great Man of a Woman. Excerpted version appeared in the International Alliance for Women in Music Journal, vol. 2, No. 2, June 1996, pp. 8-11. The Awakening of Clara. Long before my alarm was to go off, one morning in November last year, an idea popped into my mind: a Clara Schumann Home Page on the World Wide Web.
Feb 26, 2019 · German pianist and composer Clara Schumann’s dramatic personal life certainly warrants attention. She was reared by an exacting father who orchestrated the details of his child prodigy’s musical development. Despite her father’s disapproval, at age 20 she married Robert Schumann, who had been a student of her father’s and who went on to become one of the most successful composers of ...
