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Clara Josephine Schumann (German: [ˈklaːʁa ˈʃuːman]; née Wieck; 13 September 1819 – 20 May 1896) was a German pianist, composer, and piano teacher.Regarded as one of the most distinguished pianists of the Romantic era, she exerted her influence over the course of a 61-year concert career, changing the format and repertoire of the piano recital by lessening the importance of purely ...
Clara Wieck was an accomplished concert pianist, trained by her father Friedrich Wieck. [1] She was already making international tours at age eleven and composed piano pieces for her recitals. [ 1 ] In January 1833, at age 13, she began composing a Piano Concerto in A minor , completing in November a single-movement Konzertsatz that she ...
For several months Wieck refused to release to Clara the piano from the Wieck home on which she had played since childhood; finally he was forced to do so by court order. [23] By 1843 Wieck was a grandfather, Clara having given birth to the first two of her eight children, and Schumann was winning a growing reputation as a serious composer.
Schumann, Clara. Sämtliche Lieder für Singstimme und Klavier: Complete Songs for Voice and Piano. Ed. by Joachim Draheim and Brigitte Höft. 2 vols. Wiesbaden: Breitkopf & Härtel , 1990.
Song of Love is a 1947 American biopic film about the relationship between renowned 19th-century musicians Clara Wieck Schumann (Katharine Hepburn) and Robert Schumann (Paul Henreid). The film, which also stars Robert Walker and Leo G. Carroll , was directed by Clarence Brown and released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer .
Myrthen (), Op. 25, is a song cycle composed in the spring of 1840 by Robert Schumann.Its 26 Lieder were written as a wedding gift for his fiancée, Clara Wieck, and presented to her on the eve of their wedding which took place on 12 September that year.
The theme of the Davidsbündlertänze is based on a mazurka by Clara Wieck. [1] The intimate character pieces are his most personal work. In 1838, Schumann told Clara that the Dances contained "many wedding thoughts" and that "the story is an entire Polterabend (German wedding eve party, during which old crockery is smashed to bring good luck)".
Schumann wrote almost exclusively for the piano until 1840, when he burst into song composition around the time of his marriage to Clara Wieck. The list is based on lists of his works, such as in the 2001 biography by Eric Frederick Jensen. [1]