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Robert Schumann
Robert Schumann was a German composer, pianist, and music critic of the early Romantic era. He composed in all the main musical genres of the time, writing for solo piano, voice and piano, chamber groups, orchestra, choir and the opera. His works typify the spirit of the Romantic era in German music.
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culture · German composer, pianist and critic (1810–1856) · composer · pianist · music critic · conductor · musicologist · music educator · writer · art historian · art critic · also Robert Schumann, Robert Alexander Schumann, Robert Kurt Schumann, Schumann
Born 8 June 1810 · Died 29 July 1856 · Q7351
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2026· 4 entries
“knew nothing higher in all of music.”
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BroadwayWorld: Robert Schumann News
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The Guardian: Arcadi Volodos: Schubert piano sonata D850, Schumann Kinderszenen op15 – playfulness, longing and elegance
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2024· 2 entries
The Guardian: Schumann: Works for Oboe and Piano album review – beautifully effective reinventions
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The Guardian: Robert Schumann: Piano Works (Llŷr Williams) album review
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2023· 2 entries
The Guardian: Schumann: Dichterliebe and Kerner Lieder review | Andrew Clements's classical album of the week
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Gramophone magazine singled out among recent issues recordings of the Piano Quintet by Leif Ove Andsnes and the Artemis Quartet, String Quartets 1 and 3 by the Zehetmair Quartet and the Piano Trios by Andsnes, Christian
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2021· 2 entries
The Guardian: That way madness lies: why the obsession about diagnosing Robert Schumann?
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The Guardian: Clara Schumann: ‘a great artist and an interesting personality’ – archive, 1896
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2013· 1 entry
WQXR: Robert Schumann: Paganini of Piano
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2010· 2 entries
“Famous Pianists on Frédéric Chopin and Robert Schumann”
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With the songs in chronological order of composition; the pianist Graham Johnson partnered a range of singers including Ian Bostridge, Simon Keenlyside, Felicity Lott, Christopher Maltman, Ann Murray and Christine Schäfe
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2009· 1 entry
The Royal College of Music in London inaugurated the Joan Chissell Schumann Prize for singers and pianists
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2006· 1 entry
NPR: Robert Schumann
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2005· 1 entry
The German federal government launched the online Schumann Network in collaboration with cultural institutions in Zwickau, Leipzig, Düsseldorf and Bonn
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1991· 1 entry
The first volume of a complete edition of Schumann's works was published
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1985· 15 entries
Released album “Dichterliebe, op.48 / Lierderkreis, op.24”.
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Released album “Beethoven: Sonate Für Klavier / Schumann: Symphonische Etüden”.
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Released album “Schubert: Sonate für Arpeggione / Schumann: Fantasiestücke”.
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Released album “Kreisleriana & variations on a theme by Clara Wieck”.
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Released album “Dichterliebe / Liederkreis / Myrten”.
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Released album “Symphony No. 1 »Frühling« / Manfred-Ouvertüre / Ouvertüre, Scherzo & Finale”.
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Released album “Kinderszenen, op.15 / Waldszenen, op.82 / Bunte Blätter, op.99(1,2,4)”.
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Released album “Frauenliebe und Leben / Liederkreis / Tragödie I-III / 3 Lieder”.
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Released album “Siebert: Lieder / Schumann: Dichterliebe, op. 48”.
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Released album “Fantasiestücke Op. 12 / Humoreske Op. 20”.
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Released album “Brahms: Vier Ernste Gesänge / Schumann: Dichterliebe”.
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Released album “Symphonie no. 3 »Reinische« / Klavierkonzert”.
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Released album “Symphonie Nr. 1 "Frühling" / Klavierkonzert”.
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Released album “Liederabende Salzburger Festspiele Live 1957-1965 Vol. III: Robert Schumann”.
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Released album “Horowitz”.
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1984· 6 entries
Released album “Beethoven: An die ferne Geliebte, op. 98 / Schumann: Dichterliebe, op. 48”.
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Released album “Kinderszenen / Kreisleriana”.
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Released album “Symphonie no. 2 / Manfred‐Ouvertüre”.
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Released album “Fantasiestücke, op. 12 / Fantasie in C, op. 17”.
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Released album “Fantasia In C / Rhapsodie Espagnole / Song Transcriptions Of Schubert And Schumann”.
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Released album “Schubert: Symphonie no. 8 "Unvollendete" / Schumann: Symphonie no. 3 "Rheinische"”.
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1983· 3 entries
Released album “Cello Concertos”.
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Released album “Schumann: Symphony No.1”.
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Released album “Violin Concertos”.
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1982· 4 entries
Released album “Symphonie No. 3 / »Manfred«-Ouvertüre”.
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Released album “Klavierkonzerte”.
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Released album “Beethoven: Klaviersonate, op. 111 / Schumann: Symphonische Etüden / Toccata”.
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Released album “Schumann: Dichterliebe / Brahms: Six Songs”.
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1981· 2 entries
Released album “Klaviertrios no. 1 – 3”.
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Released album “Humoreske Op.20 - "Abegg" Variationen Op.1 - Waldszenen Op.82 Scènes De La Forêt”.
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1980· 5 entries
Released album “Sonates pour piano et violon en la mineur Op. 105 - En ré mineur Op. 121”.
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Released album “Klavierkonzert Op. 54 / Konzertstück Op. 79”.
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Released album “Piano Trios in D minor”.
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Released album “Liederalbum für die Jugend op. 79 / Liederkreis op. 39”.
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Released album “La Musique de chambre / Vol.1 : Quintette Op.44 - Quatuor Op.47”.
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1979· 6 entries
Released album “Sonates pour violon et piano”.
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Released album “Lieder Volume 2 - Nach Gedichten Von . On Poems By . Sur des poèmes de Heine ▪ Kerner ▪ Geibel”.
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Released album “Sinfonie Nr. 3 Es-Dur "Rheinische" / Konzertstück für vier Hörner und Orchester, op. 86”.
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Released album “Dichterliebe”.
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Released album “Lieder Volume 3 - Nach Gedichten Von = On Poems By = Sur des poèmes de Byron ▪ Goethe ▪ Lenau ▪ Von Der Neun”.
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Released album “6 Poems & Requiem, Op. 90 / Liederkreis, Op. 39 / 5 Lieder, Op. 40”.
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1978· 4 entries
Released album “Les 4 Symphonies”.
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Released album “Lieder Volume 1 – Nach Gedichten von . On Poems by . Sur des poèmes de Eichendorff ▪ Rückert ▪ Geibel ▪ Chamisso”.
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Released album “Papillons / Davidsbündlertänze”.
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Released album “Chamber Music”.
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1977· 4 entries
Released album “Symphonie nr. 2 / Konzertstück, op. 86”.
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Released album “Schumann: Frauenliebe und Leben / Brahms: Lieder”.
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Released album “Kinderszenen op. 15 / Blumenstück op. 19 / Drei Romanzen op. 28 / Arabeske op. 18”.
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Released album “Symphonie nr. 3 / Manfred Ouvertüre”.
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1976· 1 entry
Released album “Сен-Санс: Концерт но. 2 для фортепиано с оркестром соль минор, соч. 22 / Шуман: Карнавал, соч. 9”.
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1975· 1 entry
Released album “L'Œuvre de piano IV”.
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1974· 4 entries
Released album “Ian Partridge sings Schumann’s Dichterliebe, op. 48 and Liederkreis, op. 39”.
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Released album “Album pour la jeunesse”.
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Released album “Schumann: Frauenliebe- und Leben / Schubert: Lieder für Gretchen, Ellen und Suleika”.
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Released album “Cellokonzert / Rokoko Variationen”.
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1973· 2 entries
Released album “L'Œuvre de piano I”.
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Released album “Piano Concertos”.
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1972· 5 entries
With Fischer-Dieskau as Faust and Elizabeth Harwood as Gretchen
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Released album “L'Œuvre de piano II”.
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Released album “Dichterliebe, op. 48 / Liederkreis, op. 24”.
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Released album “Liszt: Sonate h-Moll / Schumann: Sonate g-Moll”.
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Released album “Symphonie n°3 "Rhénane"”.
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1971· 2 entries
Released album “Sämtliche Streichquartette”.
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Released album “Les Lieder de 1840”.
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1970· 1 entry
Released album “Duo Wikarski (Reger, Beethoven, Schumann, Dessau)”.
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1968· 3 entries
Released album “Schumann auf der Orgel”.
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Released album “Piano Concerto in A minor, op. 54 / Novelettes, op. 21, nos. 1 and 2”.
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Released album “Quatuors à cordes intégrale”.
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1967· 3 entries
Released album “Song Recital”.
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Released album “Instrumental Masters II”.
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Released album “»Liebesbotschaft« Lieder für Bariton und Klavierbegleitung aus dem Jahre 1840”.
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1966· 2 entries
Released album “Schumann: Kinderszenen / Debussy: Children’s Corner”.
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Released album “Schumann: Dichterliebe / Schubert, Beethoven: Lieder”.
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1965· 5 entries
Released album “Mendelssohn: Concerto in E minor, op. 64 / Schumann: Concerto in D minor”.
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Released album “Violoncello Recital”.
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Released album “Schumann: The Piano Works by Sviatoslav Richter (2024 Remastered)”.
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Released album “Dichterliebe • Liederkreis Op. 24”.
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Released album “Goethe Lieder”.
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1962· 1 entry
Released album “Dichterliebe / 4 Heine Lieder”.
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1961· 1 entry
Released album “Cellokonzert A-Moll / Rokoko-Variationen”.
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1960· 3 entries
Released album “Piano Concerto in A minor / Waldscenen”.
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Released album “In Recital”.
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Released album “Grieg: Piano Concerto in A minor / Schumann: Piano Concerto in A minor”.
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1959· 7 entries
Released album “Konzert für Klavier und Orchester a-moll Op.54 • Introduction und Allegro Appassionato Op.92 • Novelette F-dur Op.21 Nr. 1 • Toccata C-dur Op.7”.
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Released album “Symphonie No. 4 - "Geneviève" Ouverture”.
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Released album “The Art of Song”.
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Released album “Tchaikovsky: Sonata in G major / Schumann: Humoreske”.
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Released album “Carnaval / Fantasy Pieces”.
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Released album “Schumann: Carnaval - Chopin: Les sylphides”.
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Released album “Piano Quartets”.
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1958· 2 entries
Released album “Marsch nr.2 G‐moll / Waldszenen / Sechs Stücke aus Fantasiestücke, op. 12”.
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Released album “Concert pentru pian și orchestră în La minor, op. 54”.
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1955· 1 entry
The authors of The Record Guide expressed regret that so few of Schumann's songs were available on record, by the early twenty-first century every song was on disc
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1954· 2 entries
Released album “Symphony no. 4 in D minor”.
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Released album “Carnaval and Etudes Symphoniques”.
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1953· 1 entry
Released album “Sinfonie nr. 4 d‐moll, op. 120”.
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1950· 1 entry
Released album “Dichterliebe, op. 48”.
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1879· 1 entry
Bizet, Widor, Debussy and Ravel, along with the developers of symbolism
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1862· 1 entry
In Cologne, six years after Schumann's death
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1856· 4 entries
Died 1856-07-29.
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“A frase, dita por um amigo do compositor, define aquela que foi a maior batalha de Robert Schumann durante toda a vida: a luta contra a loucura.”
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“The talent works, the genius creates.”
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“In order to compose, all you need to do is remember a tune that nobody else has thought of.”
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1855· 1 entry
– the only other production of the opera in Schumann's lifetime
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1854· 1 entry
Career landmark: attempted suicide.
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1853· 2 entries
The twenty-year-old Johannes Brahms called on Schumann with a letter of introduction from a mutual friend, the violinist Joseph Joachim
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The Schumanns met the twenty-year-old Johannes Brahms, whom Schumann praised in an article in the Neue Zeitschrift für Musik
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1851· 1 entry
– followed by the Third Piano Trio and the Sonata in D minor for Violin and Piano, Op
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1850· 2 entries
In the hope that his appointment as the city's director of music would provide financial security, but his shyness and mental instability made it difficult for him to work with his orchestra and he had to resign after th
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The Allgemeine musikalische Zeitung (Universal Musical Journal) printed a biographical sketch of Schumann which included an account from contemporary sources that even as a boy he possessed a special talent for portrayin
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1844· 1 entry
Studied at University of Music and Theatre Leipzig (1843–1844).
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1843· 1 entry
Schumann said, "at the moment I'm involved in a large project, the largest I've yet undertaken – it's not an opera – I believe it's well-nigh a new genre for the concert hall"
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1842· 1 entry
Schumann turned his attention to chamber music
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1841· 3 entries
Schumann focused on orchestral music
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Completing the first of his four symphonies
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Of the first of his four symphonies the Allgemeine musikalische Zeitung described it as "well and fluently written
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1840· 2 entries
“s wedding bouquet), which the composer called a song cycle, although comprising twenty-six songs with lyrics from ten different writers, this set is a less unified cycle than the others. In a study of Schumann”
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– a year Schumann called his Liederjahr (year of song)
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1838· 1 entry
Schumann visited Schubert's brother Ferdinand and discovered several manuscripts including that of the Great C major Symphony
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1837· 1 entry
Acknowledged that learning of Ernestine's poverty weighed heavily on him, fearing that, given his own precarious finances and her lack of independent means, their marriage would condemn him to "work for daily bread li
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1835· 2 entries
Schumann met three musicians whom he regarded with particular respect: Felix Mendelssohn, Chopin and Moscheles
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Completed two substantial compositions: Carnaval, Op
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1831· 1 entry
Began lessons in harmony and counterpoint with Heinrich Dorn, musical director of the Saxon court theatre, and in 1832 he published his Op
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1830· 1 entry
Schumann published his Op
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1810· 1 entry
Born 1810-06-08.
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