Clara Schumann did something unthinkable for a woman in the 19th century. She composed music. And, lots of it. Solo piano music, romances for violin, a Piano Concerto, and most all of it was written ...
The 19th-century German composer Robert Schumann (1810–1856) is beloved for his music evoking romantic love, as in the song cycle “Dichterliebe,” and the love of children and childhood, as in the ...
Jane Jones introduces the concerto that was saved for posterity by a virtuoso wife! One of the most talked about partnerships in classical music must be that between Robert Schumann and Clara Wieck, ...
Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by By Yael Braunschweig AND you were feeling overwhelmed by the 118 different diagnoses recently tallied for Mozart’s final illness? Consider Robert ...
Schumann’s song cycle seems to have little to say about the realities of a woman’s life, but its emotional depths and the music’s sheer beauty still touch us. Carolyn Sampson explains how her new ...
Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Music Review | 'Faust' By Anthony Tommasini As a bookish young man born to a literary household, Schumann thought seriously of becoming a writer. In a ...