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The building, apart from the exhibition rooms on the first floor, is now the independent primary school "Clara Schumann". [1] [2] Among the exhibition rooms are the Schumann Salon, where the Schumanns received guests; the Travel Room, which is concerned with concert tours to Denmark in 1842 and Russia in 1844; [3] and the Sound Room (Klangraum), designed in the style of the Biedermeier period ...
Schumann House, Leipzig, dedicated to Robert and Clara Schumann – Leipzig; Carl-Loewe-Museum , ... New York State Country Music Hall of Fame – Cortland [172]
In Zwickau August Schumann, the composer's father, founded a bookstore with his brother, who was already living there. There was a school with a good reputation in the town (later named the Lyzeum) for the Schumann sons. [1] Robert Schumann attended this school from 1820 until 1828; in that year he moved to Leipzig to study law. [2]
Leipzig is known for its independent music scene and subcultural events. Leipzig has for thirty years been home to the Wave-Gotik-Treffen (WGT), which is currently the world's largest Gothic festival, where thousands of fans of goth music gather in the early summer.
A recording with works by Schubert was released early 2019. A CD with music from Latin America is in preparation. Babette Hierholzer is the artistic director of the German Forum, Inc. in New York since 2005, an organization that has made it its mission to invite young performers from the German speaking World for debut concerts to New York. [2]
In his funeral, Vaughan Williams conducted music by Holst and himself. [66] In 2009, the 75th anniversary of Holst's death, the old memorial was replaced by a new oval-shaped memorial. It bears an inscription from Holst’s The Hymn of Jesus: "The heavenly spheres make music for us". [67] Vladimir Horowitz: 1989 Pianist Cimitero Monumentale ...
In 1828 Friedrich Wieck (1785–1873) acquired a Hammerflügel by André Stein for his daughter Clara (1819–1896). She later married Robert Schumann, and her instrument by Stein is preserved today in the Robert Schumann House in Zwickau, and pictured on the German DM 100 banknote issued in 1989. [11]
In 1849, Robert Schumann explored the horn as a solo instrument, dedicating to it an "Adagio and Allegro," Op. 70, before embarking on the composition of an orchestral work featuring four solo horns (having also composed the "Five Songs based on Heinrich Laube's Hunting Compendium" for men's choir and four horns, Op. 137 that same year).