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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 ...
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]
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).
Robert Schumann [n 1] (/ ˈ ʃ uː m ɑː n /; German: [ˈʁoːbɛʁt ˈʃuːman]; 8 June 1810 – 29 July 1856) 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 ...
Das Robert-Schumann-Haus in Zwickau. Nationale Forschungs- und Gedenkstätten der klassischen Deutschen Literatur, Weimar 1958, Literature by and about Georg Eismann in the German National Library catalogue. Robert Schumann. Tagebücher. Volume 1: 1827–1838. Deutscher Verlag für Musik, Leipzig 1971. 2nd edition 1987, ISBN 978-3-370-00039-9
Waldszenen (Forest Scenes), Op. 82, is a set of nine short solo piano pieces composed by Robert Schumann in 1848–1849, first published in 1850–1851 in Leipzig by Bartholf Senff. [ 1 ] On the set, Schumann wrote: "The titles for pieces of music, since they again have come into favor in our day, have been censured here and there, and it has ...
During the 1930s and 1940s, music was prominent throughout Leipzig. ... Schumann House, home of Robert and Clara Schumann from 1840 to 1844.
The trio was premiered on February 1, 1840, at the Leipzig Gewandhaus by violinist Ferdinand David, cellist Franz Karl Witmann, and Mendelssohn at the piano. Robert Schumann praised the trio as "the master-trio of our time, even as Beethoven's B-flat and D and Schubert's E-flat at their time, this will delight to the future generation."