At the same time, Schumann stands out in the history of music as a daring innovator who expanded and enriched the musical language. He sought to convey fully and precisely the processes of spiritual life, on the one hand, and exterior life—the relations and contrasts between phenomena that ...
In this lesson, you'll learn about the 19th-century pianist and composer, Clara Wieck Schumann. Read an overview of her dramatic biography, and...
After Schumann died of a certain mental disease, Brahms had no reason to stay with the family and he went away. However, he still kept writing to Clara and assisting her, and he maintained his friendship with her all through his lifetime. To the end of his life he loved Clara to the ...
Clara Schumann was a German pianist, composer, and wife of composer Robert Schumann. Encouraged by her father, she studied piano from the age of five and by 1835 had established a reputation throughout Europe as a child prodigy. In 1838 she was honoured