Clara Schumann

Sketch of Clara Wieck Schumann

Clara Schumann (née Clara Josephine Wieck; 13 September 1819 – 20 May 1896) was a German musician and composer, considered one of the most distinguished pianists of the Romantic era. She exerted her influence over a 61-year concert career, changing the format and repertoire of the piano recital and the tastes of the listening public. Her husband was the composer Robert Schumann. She and her husband encouraged Johannes Brahms, and she was the first pianist to give public performances of some of Brahms' works, notably the Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel.

1 Early life
2 Marriage
3 Later career
4 Legacy
5 Character
6 Music of Clara Schumann
7 Quotations
8 Projects
9 Notes
10 References
11 External links

Early life

Clara Wieck, from an 1835 lithograph

Clara Josephine Wieck was born in Leipzig on 13 September 1819 to Friedrich and Marianne Wieck (née Tromlitz).¹ Her parents divorced when she was four years old; Clara was raised by her father.¹ In March 1828, at the age of eight, the young Clara Wieck performed at the Leipzig home of Dr. Ernst Carus, director of a mental hospital at Colditz Castle, and met another gifted young pianist invited to the musical evening named Robert Schumann, nine years older than she. Schumann admired Clara's playing so much that he asked permission from his mother to discontinue his studies of the law, which had never interested him much, and take music lessons with Clara's father, Friedrich Wieck. While taking lessons, he took rooms in the Wieck household, staying about a year.

In 1830, at the age of eleven, Clara left on a concert tour to Paris via other European cities, accompanied by her father. She gave her first solo concert at the Leipzig Gewandhaus. In Weimar, she performed a bravura piece by Henri Herz for Goethe, who presented her with a medal with his portrait and a written note saying, "For the gifted artist Clara Wieck." During that tour, Niccolò Paganini was in Paris, and he offered to appear with her.² However, her Paris recital was poorly attended as many people had fled the city due to an outbreak of cholera.²

The appearance of this artist can be regarded as epoch-making.... In her creative hands, the most ordinary passage, the most routine motive acquires a significant meaning, a color, which only those with the most consummate artistry can give.

An anonymous music critic, writing of Clara Wieck's 1837–1838 Vienna recitals³

At the age of 18, Clara Wieck performed a series of recitals in Vienna from December 1837 to April 1838.³ Austria's leading dramatic poet, Franz Grillparzer, wrote a poem entitled "Clara Wieck and Beethoven" after hearing Wieck perform the Appassionata Sonata during one of these recitals.³ Wieck performed to sell-out crowds and laudatory critical reviews; Benedict Randhartinger, a friend of Franz Schubert, gave Wieck an autograph copy of Schubert's Erlkönig, inscribing it "To the celebrated artist, Clara Wieck."³ Frédéric Chopin described her playing to Franz Liszt, who came to hear one of Wieck's concerts and subsequently "praised her extravagantly in a letter that was published in the Parisian Revue et Gazette Musicale and later, in translation, in the Leipzig journal Neue Zeitschrift für Musik."⁴ On 15 March, Wieck was named a Königliche und Kaiserliche Kammervirtuosin ("Royal and Imperial Chamber Virtuoso"), Austria's highest musical honor.⁴

In her early years her repertoire, selected by her father, was showy and popular, in the style common to the time, with works by Kalkbrenner, Henselt, Thalberg, Herz, Pixis, Czerny, and her own compositions. As she matured, however, becoming more established and planning her own programs, she began to play works by the new Romantic composers, such as Chopin, Mendelssohn and, of course, Robert Schumann, as well as the great, less showy, more "difficult" composers of the past, such as Scarlatti, Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, and Schubert. She also frequently appeared in chamber music recitals of works by Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Schumann, and Brahms.²

Marriage

Robert Schumann had been attracted to Clara since she was fifteen. By the time she was seventeen, Schumann was in love with her. The next year (1837), Schumann asked her father Friedrich for Clara's hand in marriage, but he refused.

During the next year (Clara's nineteenth), Friedrich did everything in his power to prevent her from marrying Schumann, forcing the lovers to take him to court. During this period Schumann, inspired by his love for Wieck, wrote many of his most famous Lieder. They eventually married on September 12, 1840. She continued to perform and compose after the marriage even as she raised seven children, an eighth child having died in infancy. In the various tours on which she accompanied her husband, she extended her own reputation beyond Germany, and her efforts to promote his works gradually made his work accepted throughout Europe.

In 1853, Johannes Brahms, aged twenty, met Clara and Robert in Leipzig and immediately impressed both of them with his talent. Brahms became a lifelong friend to Clara, sustaining her through the illness of Robert, asking for her advice about new compositions, even caring for her young children while she went on tour. They remained good friends up until Clara's death, however there is no historic evidence that their relationship was ever more than just friendship.

Later career

Clara Schumann's reputation brought her into contact with the leading musicians of the day, including Mendelssohn, Chopin, and Liszt. She also met violinist Joseph Joachim who became one of her frequent performance partners.

Clara Schumann, "One of the most soulful and famous pianists of the day," said Edvard Grieg.

Clara Schumann often took charge of the finances and general household affairs due to Robert's mental instability. Part of her responsibility included making money, which she did by giving concerts, although she continued to play throughout her life not only for the income, but because she was a concert artist by training and by nature. Robert, while admiring her talent, wanted a traditional wife to bear children and make a happy home, which in his eyes and the eyes of society were in direct conflict with the life of a performer. Furthermore, while she loved touring, Robert hated it.

After Robert's death (July 29, 1856), Clara devoted herself principally to the interpretation of his works. But when she first visited England in 1856 largely through the good offices of William Sterndale Bennett, the English composer and friend of her late husband, the critics received Robert's music with a chorus of disapproval. She returned to London in 1865 and continued her visits annually, with the exception of four seasons, until 1882. She also appeared there each year from 1885 to 1888.

She played a particular role in restoring Brahms's D minor concerto to the general repertory; it had fallen out of favour after its premiere, and was only rehabilitated in the 1870s, thanks mainly to the efforts of Clara Schumann and Brahms himself.²

She was initially interested in the works of Liszt, but later developed an outright hostility to him. She ceased to play any of his works; she suppressed her husband's dedication to Liszt of his Fantasie in C major when she published Schumann's complete works; and she refused to attend a Beethoven centenary festival in Vienna in 1870 when she heard that Liszt and Richard Wagner would be participating.²

She was particularly scathing of Wagner. Of Tannhäuser, she said that he "wears himself out in atrocities"; she described Lohengrin as "horrible"; and she wrote that Tristan und Isolde was "the most repugnant thing I have ever seen or heard in all my life".²

In 1878 she was appointed teacher of the piano at the Hoch Conservatory in Frankfurt am Main, a post she held until 1892, and in which she contributed greatly to the improvement of modern piano playing technique.

She held Anton Bruckner, whose 7th Symphony she heard in 1885, in very low esteem. She wrote to Brahms, describing it as "a horrible piece". But she was more impressed with Richard Strauss's early Symphony in F minor in 1887.²

Clara Schumann played her last public concert in Frankfurt on March 12, 1891. The last work she played was Brahms's Variations on a Theme by Haydn, in the piano-duet version.

She suffered a stroke on March 26, 1896, dying on May 20, at age 77. She is buried at Bonn's Alter Friedhof (Old Cemetery) with her husband.

She was portrayed onscreen by Katharine Hepburn in the 1947 film Song of Love, in which Paul Henreid played Robert Schumann and Robert Walker starred as a young Johannes Brahms.

Legacy

Although for many years after her death Clara Schumann was not widely recognized as a composer, as a pianist she made an impression which lasts until today. She was one of the first pianists to perform from memory, making that the standard for concertizing. Trained by her father to play by ear and to memorize, she gave public performances from memory as early as age thirteen, a fact noted as something exceptional by her reviewers.⁵

She was also instrumental in changing the kind of programs expected of concert pianists. In her early career, before her marriage to Robert, she played what was then customary, mainly bravura pieces designed to showcase the artist's technique, often in the form of arrangements or variations on popular themes from operas, written by virtuosos such as Thalberg, Herz, or Henselt. And, as it was also customary to play one's own compositions, she included at least one of her own works in every program, works such as her Variations on a Theme by Bellini (Op. 8) and her popular Scherzo (Op. 10). However, after settling into married life, probably under the influence of Robert, her performances focused almost exclusively on more serious music by Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, Schubert, Mendelssohn, Chopin, and Schumann.⁶

Clara Schumann's influence has reached us as well through her teaching, which emphasized a singing tone and expression, with technique entirely subordinated to the intentions of the composer. One of her students, Mathilde Verne, carried her teaching to England where she taught, among others, Solomon; while another of her students, Carl Friedberg, carried the tradition to the Juilliard School in America, where his students included Malcolm Frager and Bruce Hungerford.⁷

And, of course, Clara was instrumental in getting the works of Robert Schumann recognized, appreciated and added to the repertoire. She promoted him tirelessly, beginning when his music was unknown or disliked, when the only other important figure in music to play Schumann occasionally was Liszt, and continuing until the end of her long career.

Character

Clara Schumann was the main breadwinner for her family through giving concerts and teaching, and she did most of the work of organizing her own concert tours. She refused to accept charity when a group of musicians offered to put on a benefit concert for her. In addition to raising her own large family, when one of her children became incapacitated, she took on responsibility for raising her grandchildren. During the May Uprising in Dresden in 1849, she famously walked into the city through the front lines, defying a pack of armed men who confronted her, rescued her children, then walked back out of the city through the dangerous areas again.

Her family life was punctuated by tragedy. Four of her eight children and her husband predeceased her, and her husband and one of her sons ended their lives in insane asylums. Her first son Emil died in 1847, aged only one. Her husband Robert had a mental collapse, attempted suicide in 1854, and was committed to an insane asylum for the last two years of his life. In 1872 her daughter Julie died, leaving two small children. In 1879, her son Felix, aged 25, died. Her son Ludwig suffered from mental illness, like his father, and, in her words, had to be "buried alive" in an institution. Her son Ferdinand died at the age of 43 and she was required to raise his children. She herself became deaf in later life and she often needed a wheelchair.²

Music of Clara Schumann

As part of the broad musical education given her by her father, Clara Wieck learned to compose, and from childhood to middle age she produced a good body of work. At age fourteen she wrote her first piano concerto, with some help from Robert Schumann, and performed it at age sixteen at the Leipzig Gewandhaus with Mendelssohn conducting.

As she grew older, however, she lost confidence in herself as a composer, writing, "I once believed that I possessed creative talent, but I have given up this idea; a woman must not desire to compose — there has never yet been one able to do it. Should I expect to be the one?" In fact, Wieck-Schumann composed nothing after the age of thirty-six.

Today her compositions are increasingly performed and recorded. Her works include songs, piano pieces, a piano concerto, a piano trio, choral pieces, and three Romances for violin and piano. Inspired by her husband's birthday, the three Romances were composed in 1853 and dedicated to Joseph Joachim, who performed them for George V of Hanover. He declared them a "marvellous, heavenly pleasure."

Wieck-Schumann was the authoritative editor of her husband's works for the publishing firm of Breitkopf & Härtel.

Quotations

"Clara has composed a series of small pieces, which show a musical and tender ingenuity such as she has never attained before. But to have children, and a husband who is always living in the realm of imagination, does not go together with composing. She cannot work at it regularly, and I am often disturbed to think how many profound ideas are lost because she cannot work them out."

—Robert Schumann in the joint diary of Robert and Clara Schumann.

"Composing gives me great pleasure...there is nothing that surpasses the joy of creation, if only because through it one wins hours of self-forgetfulness, when one lives in a world of sound."

—Clara Schumann.

Projects

Clara Schumann's published works are listed below by date of publication. Twenty-five additional unpublished or lost works may be found in Reich, Nancy B., Clara Schumann, The Artist and The Woman, appendix.

1831· Quatre Polonaises pour le pianoforte, Op. 1.
1832· 9 Caprices en forme de valse pour le piano, Op. 2. Dedicated to Madame Henriette Foerster, née Weicke.
1833· Romance variée pour le piano, Op. 3 (C major). Dedicated to Monsieur Robert Schumann.
1834· Walzer fűr Gesang und Klavier. Song with text by Johann Peter Lyser. Published in collection Lyser's Liedersammlung.
1835· Valses romantiques pour le piano, Op. 4. Dedicated to Madame Emma Eggers née Garlichs. The Valses were orchestrated but none of the instrumental parts survive.
1835· Quatre pieces caractéristiques, Op. 5 (1. Le Sabbat; 2. Caprice à la Boléro; 3. Romance: 4. Ballet des Revenants). Dedicated to Mademoiselle Sophie Kaskel.
1836· 6 Soirées musicales, Op. 6 (1. Toccatina in A minor; 2. Nocturne in F Major; 3. Mazurka in G minor; 4. Ballade in D minor; 5. Mazurka in G major; 6. Polonaise in A minor). Dedicated to Madame Henriette Voigt.
1836· Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 7: Premier concert pour le piano-forte avec accompagnement d'orchestre (ou de quintour). (1 Allegro maestoso; 2 Romanze. Andante non troppo con grazia; 3 Finale. Allegro non troppo; allegro molto). Dedicated to Monsieur Louis Spohr. A draft exists of the last movement, orchestrated by Robert Schumann and in Schumann's hand.
1837· Variations de concert pour le pianoforte, sur la Cavatine du Pirate, de Bellini, Op. 8. Dedicated to Monsieur Adolph Henselt.
1838· Impromptu in G major. Souvenir de Vienne.
1839· Scherzo No. 1 in D minor, Op. 10.
1840· Trois Romances pour le pianoforte, Op. 11 (1. E-flat minor, Andante; 2. G minor. Andante; 3. A major, Moderato). Dedicated to Monsieur Robert Schumann.
1841· Am Strande. Song with text by Robert Burns. Published in Neue Zeitung für Musik, July 1841.
1841· 3 songs: Zwőlf Gedichte aus F. Rűckert's Liebesfrűling fűr Gesang und pianoforte von Robert und Clara Schumann, Op. 12: 2. Er ist gekommen in Sturm und Regen; 4. Liebst du um Schönheit; 11. Warum willst du and’re Fragen? (these were published as part of Robert Schumann's Gedichte aus Liebesfrühling, Op. 37)
1841· Die gute Nacht, die ich dir sage.
1842· Piano Sonata in G minor (1. Allegro; 2. Adagio con espressione e ben legato; 3. Scherzo; Trio; 4 Rondo).
1843· 6 songs: Sechs lieder mit begleitung des pianoforte, Op. 13: 1. Ihr Bildnis. Ich stand in dunklen Träumen; 2. Sie liebten sich beide; 3. Liebeszauber; 4. Der Mond kommt still gegangen; 5. Ich hab’in deinem Auge; 6. Die stille Lotusblume. Dedicated to Queen Caroline Amalie of Denmark.
1843· O weh des Scheidens, das er tat.
1844· Impromptu in E major (published in Album du gaulois, 1885).
1845· Scherzo No. 2 in C minor, Op. 14: Deuxième scherzo pour le pianoforte, Op. 14. Dedicated to Madame Tutein née Siboni.
1845· Quatre pièces fugitives, Op. 15 (1. F major, Larghetto; 2. A minor, In poco agitato; 3. D major, Andante espressivo; 4. G major, Scherzo). Dedicated to Marie Wieck. Scherzo originally composed for unpublished Sonatine.
1845· 3 Preludes and Fugues: III Praeludien und fugen für das pianoforte, Op. 16: (1. G minor; 2. B-flat major or B major; 3. D minor).
1847· Piano Trio in G minor: Trio fur pianoforte, violine und violoncello, Op. 17: (1. Allegro moderato; 2. Scherzo. Tempo di menuetto; 3. Andante; 4. Allegretto). Some emendations on autograph seem to be by Robert Schumann.
1848· Mein Stern ("O du mein Stern"). Song with text by Friederike Serre.
1854· Variations on a Theme of Robert Schumann: Variationen für das pianoforte über ein thema von Robert Schumann, Op. 20. Dedicated to Robert Schumann.
1855· Drei romanzen für pianoforte, Op. 21. Dedicated to Johannes Brahms.
1855· Drei romanzen für pianoforte und violine, Op. 22. Dedicated to Joseph Joachim.
1855· Sechs lieder aus jucunde von Hermann Rollet, Op. 23 (1. Was weinst du, Blümein?; 2. An einem lichten Morgen; 3. Geheimes Flüstern; 4. Auf einem grünem Hügel; 5. Das ist ein tag; 6. O lust, O lust. Dedicated to Livia Frege.
1885· Impromptu. Published in Album du Galois.
1870· Cadenzas (2) for Beethoven Piano Concerto in G Major, op. 58.
1870· Cadenzas for Beethoven Piano Concerto in C Minor, op. 37.
1891· Cadenzas (2) for Mozart Piano Concerto in D Minor (K. 466).
1977· Romanze für Clavier. Published in Clara Schumann, Romantische Klaviermusik, vol. 2.

Notes

^ ^a ^b Hall.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h Joseph Braunstein, Liner notes for Michael Ponti's recording of Clara Schumann's Piano Concerto No. 1 in A minor, Op. 7
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Reich (1986), 249.
^ ^a ^b Reich (1986), 250.
^ Reich, Nancy B., Clara Schumann, The Artist and The Woman. Revised edition. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 2001, pp. 271-2. ISBN 0801486378.
^ Litzmann, Berthold, Clara Schumann: An Artist's Life Based on Material Found in Diaries and Letters, Vol. I, Litzmann Press, 2007, p.316, ISBN 1406759066, ISBN 978-1406759068.
^ Reich, Nancy B., Clara Schumann, The Artist and The Woman. Revised edition. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 2001, pp. 254. ISBN 0801486378.

References

Boyd, Melinda. "Gendered Voices: The 'Liebesfrüling' Lieder of Robert and Clara Schumann." 19th-Century Music 23 (Autumn 1999): 145–162.
Gould, John. "What Did They Play? The Changing Repertoire of the Piano Recital from the Beginnings to 1980." The Musical Times 146 (Winter 2005): 61–76.
Hall, George. "Schumann, Clara (Josephine)." The Oxford Companion to Music [n.d.]. Accessed through Grove Music Online on 30 June 2009.
Kopiez, Reinhard, Andreas C. Lehmann and Janina Klassen. "Clara Schumann's collection of playbills: A historiometric analysis of life-span development, mobility, and repertoire canonization." Poetics, Volume 37, Issue 1, February 2009: 50–73.
Litzmann, Berthold. Clara Schumann: An Artist's Life. New York: Da Capo Press, 1979. ISBN 0306795825.
Poundie, L. "Their Paths, Her Ways: Comparison of Text Settings by Clara Schumann and Other Composers." Women and Music — A Journal of Gender and Culture 6 (2002): 11ff. Accessed through the International Index to Music Periodicals on 29 June 2009.
Rattalino, Piero. Schumann. Robert & Clara. Varese: Zecchini Editore, 2002. ISBN 8887203148.
Reich, Nancy B. "Clara Schumann." In Women Making Music: The Western Art Tradition, 1150–1950. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1986. ISBN 025201246.
Reich, Nancy B. Clara Schumann, The Artist and The Woman. Revised edition. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 2001. ISBN 0801486378.
Reich, Susanna. Clara Schumann: Piano Virtuoso. 1999. Reprint. New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2005. ISBN 0618551603.

External links

Kreusch-sheet-music.net - Free Scores by Clara Schumann
Free scores by Clara Schumann in the International Music Score Library Project
Complete works of Clara Schumann-Wieck.
Goldenwattle.net - Play about Clara Schumann
March in Es dur, for piano duet, Clara Schumann's last work in Youtube.com

Persondata
NAME	Schumann, Clara
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Schumann, Clara Josephine Wieck; Wieck, Clara
SHORT DESCRIPTION	German musician, pianist composer
DATE OF BIRTH	September 13, 1819
PLACE OF BIRTH	Leipzig, Saxony
DATE OF DEATH	May 20, 1896
PLACE OF DEATH

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Mozart's LIEDER: The text is interesting for a variety of reasons, one of which is the number of composers who set it, including Clara Schumann. I particularly enjoy Goethe's use of the irony of circumstance, which plays out very nicely in what seems on ...
Sting and Trudy Styler as Robert and Clara Schumann: Sting and Trudy Styler as Robert and Clara Schumann Sting and his wife, Trudie Styler, played Robert and Clara Schumann in “Twin Spirits” at the Allen Room. Read more on New York Times.
Music Review: Sting and Trudy Styler as Robert and Clara Schumann: Sting and his wife, Trudie Styler, played Robert and Clara Schumann in “Twin Spirits” at the Allen Room.
Get Your Twin Spirits: Sting performs Schumann Amazon Discount!: Add to that a chronology and a sort-of “infomercial” for Royal Opera House Education, and you've got a DVD set packed with many interesting ways to learn about Robert and Clara Schumann, two of the greatest artists of their time. ...
Brahms to Clara Schumann 27 June 1855: Brahms to Clara Wednesday, June 27 Beloved Frau Clara, At last the longed for Sunday is drawing ever nearer! If only it brings you! I am really quivering with expectation. Each time I am parted from you it becomes more difficult to grow ...
Great Masters: Robert and Clara Schumann - Their Lives and Music: Great Masters: Robert and Clara Schumann - Their Lives and Music Course No. 759 (8 lectures, 45 minutes/lecture) | English | XVID 640x480 29fps (4:3) @736Kbps | MP3 128Kbps 48Khz | 2.29Gb Taught by Robert Greenberg | San Francisco ...
Download Schumann, Clara – Carl Maria Von Weber Piano Concertos: Album – Carl Maria Von Weber Piano Concertos Download Carl Maria Von Weber Piano Concertos Album image – Songs list: Clara Schumann Concierto for piano and orchestra in A Menor Op 7 I Allegro Maestoso Clara Schumann Concierto for piano ...
Clara Schumann: Complete Piano Works: Clara Schumann: Complete Piano Works.
Brahms to Clara Schumann 30 Jan. 1861: Brahms to Clara Hamburg, Wednesday, Jan. 30 Most Beloved Clara, There is a time for everything, including letter writing unfortunately. Oh why am I not a musical conductor at a Royal Court? If I had been in Detmold – and I so often ...
Good things I wish you: She's also writing a novel on the relationship between Clara Schumann (acclaimed pianist and wife of composer Robert Schumann) and burgeoning composer Johannes Brahms. Debating whether they were lovers. And if not, why not? ...
Schumann, Clara - Carl Maria Von Weber Piano Concertos: Schumann, Clara - Carl Maria Von Weber Piano Concertos Album genre: Classical Release year: 0 Tracklist: Clara Schumann Concierto for piano and orchestra in A Menor Op 7 I Allegro Maestoso Clara Schumann Concierto for piano and ...
Clara Schumann to Brahms 18 Oct. 1863: Clara to Brahms Dusseldorf, Oct.18 I should have acknowledged your kind parcel much sooner had I not been terribly busy. The deluge of work with which I have been flooded is really almost too much. My correspondence about concerts is ...
Good Things I Wish You-A. Manette Ansay: Battling feelings of loss and apathy in the wake of a painful divorce, novelist Jeanette struggles to complete a book about the long-term relationship between Clara Schumann, a celebrated pianist and the wife of the composer Robert ...
Clara Schumann Piano Music: Clara Schumann Piano Music Overview. Original compilation of the composer's most popular, most mature piano works, including Witches Dance, Op. 5, No. 1; Four Fleeting Pieces, Op. 15; Three Preludes and Fugues, Op. ...
Brahms to Clara Schumann 24 April 1865: Brahms to Clara Vienna, Monday, April 24 It is all very annoying that you should actually be in England now and that the beautiful spring weather should see nothing of you, and that I should be preparing all sorts of pieces of music to ...
Clara Schumann to Brahms 31 May 1865: Clara to Brahms London, May 31, 1, Orme Square, Bayswater. It is already plain to me that I must write again, otherwise I shall not get another word from my dear Johannes. You really might have sent me another note from home, ...
Di Wu opens the Portland Piano Festival with impressive recital: Wu prefaced the concert with a few remarks that connected the dots between Clara Schumann's Mazurka from Soirées Musicales and the second piece Robert Schumann's Davidsbündlertänze. It turns out that Robert started his piece with a ...
Songs by Cecile Chaminade and Clara Schumann: September 14 | 8:00 PM | A girl's night out worth of music performed by guest artists Denise Parr-Scanlin, voice, and Kerry Walters, piano.
Art & Culture Maven: Art of Time opens New Season with Schumann: Robert Schumann (1810-1856) was a German composer and the husband of pianist Clara Schumann. He was one of the most famous Romantic composers of the 19th century, as well as a well-known music critic. Struggling to break from the ...
Music Review: Sting and Trudy Styler as Robert and Clara Schumann: Sting and his wife, Trudie Styler, played Robert and Clara Schumann in “Twin Spirits” at the Allen Room.
Book Review: Good Things I Wish You by A. Manette Ansay: Now, she can't seem to get traction on her latest book, a novel based on the forty-year relationship between nineteenth-century German pianist Clara Schumann and her husband's handsome young protégé, the composer Johannes Brahms. ...
ClassicDoctor.com » Boston and Musician(4)_The 'conservatism' of ...: He later fell in love with the widow Clara Schumann, but after all remained single and died of liver cancer one year after Clara's death. Due to his personalities, Brahms was able to complete the tradition of symphony after Beethoven, ...
Read This Book: A. Manette Ansay's Good Things I Wish You: Good Things I Wish You, about love, passion, career, male-female friendship, and the love triangle between Clara Schumann, Robert Schumann and Johannes Brahms has already won the Florida Book Award, and it's truly a stunner. ...
Schumann Writes a Concerto on the Installment Plan: Also on that concert, Clara Schumann appeared for the first time in public under her married name. Though his symphony was well received, it must have been obvious to Robert that Clara was the real star of the evening. ...
Musica Clasica para todos: Great Masters: Robert and Clara ...: Robert Schumann (1810–1856) and his wife Clara Wieck Schumann (1819–1896) have earned a distinct place in the annals of Western music. As a couple with a two-career marriage—he as a pioneering critic and composer, she as one of the ...
Brahms and Clara Schumann: A few years ago I read a long biography of Clara Schumann and have been in awe of how she handled a complex life and concertized, had eight children, a husband and son who went mad [whatever that meant back then] and wrote much music ...
Dinner & a Show: Wednesday 9/1 | The Blog | Chicago Reader: Show: Alon Goldstein Israeli pianist Alon Goldstein highlights the relationship of Brahms to Robert and Clara Schumann by including works by all three in this recital in honor of Robert's 200th birthday. 6 PM, Bennett-Gordon Hall, ...
Clara Schumann: “My imagination can picture no fairer happiness than to continue living for art.”
Arabella Goddard and Ilona Eibenshutz: Two Famous Female Pianists ...: After the years of study with Clara Schumann, Ilona began a series of concert tours which were successful in every aspect. For some years she appeared several times a year at the Monday Popular Concerts in London, and performed also ...
Maestro Steichen Pops! | QSaltLake - Utah's Gay and Lesbian News ...: Robert and Clara Schumann March 12. Peter and the Wolf March 25–26. Mozart Symphony No. 40. April 15–16. Also Sprach Zarathustra April 22–23. A Child of Our Time April 26. Classical Countdown with Big Buddah April 29–30 ...
Descendants of Robert and Clara Schumann - Classical Music Forums ...: Hi Everyone, I am a retired professor of psychology (with a BS from Juilliard, in composition). I give occasional talks (with some piano.
The Final Answers: And I also think that there's a wonderful film waiting to be made about the romance of Robert and Clara Schumann. Rock musicians? Well, I don't really know a whole lot about the lives of many rock figures at all. Neil Peart of Rush, ...
Clara Schumann: Scores of Robert Schumann's music containing the personal annotations of Clara Schumann; letters from Clara Schumann; She too studied with Clara Schumann, although illness prevented a performing career. You can enjoy free access to all ...
Blogger Musical (classic library): Clara Schumann · Carl Maria von ...: Clara Schumann · Carl Maria von Weber · Piano Concertos. Elizabeth Rich piano · Janácek Philharmonic orchestra · Dennis Burkh. LINK Descarga. Clara Wieck Schumann (1819-1896) Concerto for Piano and Orchestra in A Minor, Op.7 ...
The Schumann's & The Sting's are “Twin Spirits”: "Twin Spirits" From left, Trudie Styler, Sting, Nina Kotova and Natasha Paremski in this hybrid piece about Robert and Clara Schumann at the Allen Room. photo: Chad Batka NYT's. Outside of classical vocal music Sir Sting has always been ...
Wishing Wednesday: Winner of the ASCAPDeems Taylor Award, Clara Schumann has become a classic since its publication in 1985. For this new edition Nancy B. Reich has added several photographs and updated the text to include recent discoveries. ...
Clara Schumann's Career: Clara Schumann had a big role to play in feminist classical music, and this related to her life, and her career. Music was not merely a source to win bread for her family, but it was about her life. Music inspired her and related to her ...
Clara Schumann: cassandra204 posted a photo: Clara Schumann. www.youtube.com/watch?v=9U_DKLL96l4 Background from playingwithbrushes ! Thank you !
New Sheet Music and Recordings: Brahms – Two Intermezzi: The opus, consisting of six pieces, were sent as a gift to Clara Schumann immediately upon their completion. Brahms' biographer Jan Swafford has surmised: “he may have composed the pieces to try and keep Clara Schumann going in body and ...
Good Things I Wish You by A. Manette Ansay: This novel is a story within a story concerning a young mother and college professor who is writing a book about the pianist Clara and the composer Robert Schumann and Clara Schumann's relationship with the composer Johannes Brahms. ...
(52) Good Things I Wish You by A. Manette Ansay: The tale of Clara Schumann, a world renowned female pianist, her husband well-known composer Robert Schumann and the young protege Johannes Brahms. As a surprise twist of fate, Jeanette meets a rather mysterious man who grew up in ...
Clara Schumann | Classical Composers Database: Classical music composer Clara Schumann, life, biography, compositions, concert, recordings, MP3, sheet music, books.
Clara Schumann – A Musician and a Composer: Born in Leipzig, Germany, Clara Wieck Schumann was a composer and a pianist. Born into a musical family, with pianist father, and a performer mother, she got celebrated as a concert pianist at a very early age. ...
Robert and Clara Schumann – A Love Story by Agnes Selby ...: Clara Schumann, nee Wieck, was a composer whose work has only recently become appreciated by audiences the world over. She was a dutiful daughter, a mother of eight children, a loyal friend and a loving wife. But first and foremost she ...
Nadine Cohodas' Princess Noire: The Tumultuous Reign of Nina Simone: ... earned a scholarship and was accepted at the prestigious Juilliard School of Music where she studied during the summer session with such noted professors as Luisa Stojowski, and Carl Friedberg (who had also taught Clara Schumann). ...
Twin Spirits: Sting performs Schumann Normally $24.99 – Only ...: Add to that a chronology and a sort-of "infomercial" for Royal Opera House Education, and you've got a DVD set packed with many interesting ways to learn about Robert and Clara Schumann, two of the greatest artists of their time. ...
Clara Schumann: I'm being a bit pro-feminist here by doing a post on Clara Wieck Schumann [13 September 1819 – 20 May 1896]. Or at least I think I am. She was married to the Romantic composer Robert Schumann, and he is usually the more famous of the ...
The classics revisited: Brahms' chamber music [1]: After the beefy Allegro, the lovely Intermezzo inspired by Clara Schumann, and the restrained Andante, the final Rondo pulls out all the stops as Brahms channels both quirky and sentimental Hungarian themes in his inimatible way, ...
Schumann's Ghost: Along with Clara Schumann and Johannes Brahms, they agreed to keep the violin concerto a secret, deciding that not only was it not Schumann's best work, but that it carried the taint of madness that did him in. ...
Katie Ketchum's one-woman show: She'll perform her new show, “An Evening with Clara Schumann; 19th Century Pianist and Composer,” at 7:30 pm Friday, June 18, at the the Sebastopol Center for the Arts, 6780 Depot St., Sebastopol. Admission: $10-$20. ...
Shuann Chai Shows Frederick Collection Érard's Tonal Expression: 566. Clara Schumann played Érards in concert, although, unlike Liszt, she did not own one. The balance of the recital was devoted to Robert Schuman's Kreisleriana, Op. 16 (1838), which was dedicated to Chopin. In acknowledgement of the ...
Tea & Music - Music and Letters: As the Library plays host to the Brisbane Writers Festival, September's Tea and Music will examine the writings of some famous musical friends - virtuoso pianist Clara Schumann and composer Johannes Brahms. As a young composer, ...
Clara-Schumann-Gymnasium Dülken » Soirée musicale 2010 – ein ...: Eine fast unüberschaubare Menschenmenge füllt nach und nach die Aula des Clara-Schumann-Gymnasiums in Dülken. Ihr Ziel: die siebte Ausgabe der traditionellen „Soirée musicale“, in der sich die zahlreichen Musikensembles und Solisten der ...
Classroom Music for Little Mozarts 1: Deluxe Curriculum Kit (Book ...: Plush characters Mozart Mouse, Beethoven Bear and Clara Schumann-Cat are included to help the music lesson come alive for the students. The curriculum book includes well-sequenced and quickly paced lesson plans with a ...
Clara Schumann's Piano Concerto Now Available at Music Minus One ...: Music Minus One is now offering the acclaimed Clara Schumann Piano Concerto in their line of premium accompaniment editions. This Concerto is the first MMO release by a female composer and has been praised by many modern ...
The Diary Junction Blog: Schumann and Clara: However, Ostwald considers there are two 'remarkable exceptions' to this pattern: the diaries of Schumann's youth when he was thinking of himself as a literary writer, and the marriage diaries written with his wife Clara. ...
Three Female Pianists of the Nineteenth Century: Marie Wieck ...: The sister of Clara Schumann, she was extremely gifted in the musical arts and received her early piano training, as did Clara, with their father, the pianist Friedrich Wieck (1785-1873). Marie was born at Leipzig, Germany, ...
Classical Music: Where are all the women?: And of course there have been women such as Clara Schumann and Alma Mahler who expressed their musical talents in conjunction with those of their husbands…but they aren't really stand-alone composers, which I think is a shame – they ...
Romantics: Johannes Brahms and Clara Schumann — a poem by Lisel ...: Romantics Johannes Brahms and Clara Schumann. The modern biographers worry “how far it went,” their tender friendship. They wonder just what it means when he writes he thinks of her constantly, his guardian angel, beloved friend. ...
Chronicle of June 2010: Sting and his wife in Twin Spirits, re Robert and Clara Schumann. Allen Room, New York, NY. "Crossover projects in classical music have traditionally been matters of opera singers or big-ticket instrumentalists performing jazz, ...
Clara Schumann: First Lady of 19th Century Piano: If German Romantic Pianism had a First Lady, that person would have to be Clara Wieck Schumann (1819-1896). Robert Schumann, nine years her elder, met her at age eight in 1828, and their friendship eventually blossomed into love. ...
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897) - Lullaby: In the Brahms camp were his close friends: Clara Schumann, the influential music critic Eduard Hanslick and the leading Viennese surgeon Theodor Billroth. In 1860 Brahms attempted to organize a public protest against some of the wilder ...
Clara Schumann's career: Clara Schumann had to play a role in the feminist classical music, and this in connection with his life and his career.> The music was not only a source of bread for his family to win, but it was his life.'s Inspired and in relation to ...