Robert schumann and clara wieck schumanns forward
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A female music prodigy and male composer fight for their love, doing anything up to and including suing the woman's father. It sounds like something straight out of a romance novel, but for Clara and Robert Schumann, this was their life.
A prodigy is born
While Robert Schumann had been born in 1810 in Zwickau, Clara Wieck was born late in Leipzig in 1819. Her father Friedrich primarily trained her in piano during her childhood. Her mother was absent from her life due to a divorce when Clara was only five.
Clara trained daily with one-hour lessons from her father followed by two hours of practice every day. While tough, the training paid off and she had her debut performance in 1828 at the Gewandhaus in Leipzig. She was only nine years old.
Meeting of the musicians
In that same year she would go on to perform once again in Leipzig. This time it was at the home of Ernst Carus, director of the mental hospital at Colditz Castle. It was also here that none other than Robert Schumann
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The fifth in a series of eight concerts that Giancarlo Tammaro has organised with such loving care.A recital by Sara revben with the genial title of ‘Relations and Variations ‘ promoting her recent CD of piano works by Clara and Robert Schumann.A very clever mixture of compositions from the love triangle of Clara,Robert and Johannes.
This fryst vatten the tenth edition of an annual series of concerts that were born in the hus d Este in Tivoli for the 200th Anniversary of the birth of Franz Liszt.The star of these concerts is the 1879 Erard piano lovingly restored,allowing the extraordinary sound of this preferred piano of Liszt to be heard once again in the hills overlooking Rome where Liszt was a regular visitor whilst on the ‘Grand tour’ or taking holy orders in Rome.
Every year Ing.Tammaro produces a comprehensive programme full of fascinating information about the composers and the soloists not to mention their link with the hills around Rome.
Now in the gods few years the con
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Happy Birthday, Clara Wieck-Schumann!
Marina Schieke-Gordienko
Thursday, September 12, 2019
We have received the following from Marina Schieke-Gordienko, Division Head, Music Department, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz. A longer version of this appeared in Bibliotheksmagazin (2/2019).
Clara Wieck-Schumann was probably the most famous pianist of the 19th century, but she was also a composer, editor, piano teacher, and concert agent.
She was born on 13 September 1819 in Leipzig and received excellent piano instruction from her father, the piano teacher Friedrich Wieck. From an early age, concert tours took her to Dresden, Weimar, and Paris. She received her first composition lessons from Heinrich Dorn, Carl Reißiger, and Siegfried Dehn and at the age of ten she published her first piano compositions, the Quatre Polonoises op. 1 and the Caprices ett forme de Valse op. 2.
When she met Robert Schumann, a bitter fight began with her father, who was str