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Robert Schumann [n 1] (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 typify the spirit of the ...
The Schumann House is a cultural site in Leipzig in Germany. The musicians Robert Schumann and his wife Clara lived here for their first four years of marriage; there are now exhibition rooms in their former apartment, about their life and work.
With the departure of Robert Schumann from Zwickau in 1828 and the subsequent studies in Leipzig and Heidelberg, an extensive correspondence between mother and son began. In total, including two letters from 1817 and 1818, 65 letters from Robert Schumann to his mother and 37 letters from his mother to him [16] [17] [18] have survived and were ...
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).
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]
Robert Schumann (1810–1856), German composer, aesthete and influential music critic Hans Sitt (1850–1922), German violinist and composer Karl Straube , German Organist and choral conductor; Thomaskantor
The Introduction and Allegro appassionato (Konzertstück) for piano and orchestra in G major, Op. 92, was composed by Robert Schumann in September 1849. It received its first performance in Leipzig on February 14, 1850, with Clara Schumann at the piano with Julius Rietz conducting. [1] The work was published in 1852.
Robert Schumann and Clara Wieck married there on 12 September 1840. During the second part of the 19th century the village turned into a suburb inhabited mainly by workers. The number of inhabitants increased from 889 in 1834 to 14,879 in 1910. Schönefeld was connected to the tram network in 1896 and was suburbanised into Leipzig in 1915.