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- Although now best known for his songs and piano music Schumann also wrote symphonies, concertos, chamber music, oratorios, melodrama, and opera.
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Jul 26, 2024 · Robert Schumann, German Romantic composer renowned particularly for his piano music, songs (lieder), and orchestral music. Many of his best-known piano pieces were written for his wife, the pianist Clara Schumann. Learn more about his life and works in this article.
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 ...
Jun 7, 2010 · Robert Schumann was a German composer and critic born in Zwickau on June 8, 1810. A quirky, problematic genius, he wrote some of the greatest music of the Romantic era, and also some of the...
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This list of compositions by Robert Schumann is classified into piano, vocal, orchestral and chamber works. All works are also listed separately, by opus number. Schumann wrote almost exclusively for the piano until 1840, when he burst into song composition around the time of his marriage to Clara Wieck.
Robert Schumann (1810–1856) was a German romantic composer and influential music critic. He’s now considered one of the most important composers of the 19th century and classical music history.
Jun 8, 2024 · Between 1841 and 1842 he wrote three string quartets, a piano quartet, and a piano quintet of sheer genius. As time went on, he attempted larger forms – choral works, the opera Genoveva and...
Jul 26, 2024 · Schumann’s early music—and much of the later—is full of enigmas, musical quotations (usually in subtle disguises), and veiled allusions. In the field of the piano miniature and the pianistic song, he is a supreme master; in the simpler kind of lyrical inspiration and in the invention of musical aphorisms , he has seldom been surpassed.
