Clara Wieck Schumann was a German musician -- a pianist, composer, and teacher who lived from 1819-1896. She started playing piano at age 5, and was a child prodigy. She and her husband Robert ...

Robert Schumann (1810-1856) was not a child prodigy like his contemporaries Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847), Frederic Chopin (1810-1849), Franz Liszt (1811-1886)—or his wife Clara (1819-1896). Clara ...

One of the 19 th century’s most important musical power couples, Robert and Clara Schumann, will be the focus Thursday of a concert by the Chamber Music Society of Palm Beach. More to the point for ...

Pianist Michelle Cann will perform Clara Schumann's first and only piano concerto with the Arkansas Symphony and conductor Geoffrey Robson this weekend at Little Rock's Robinson Center Performance ...

She was a prodigy. A touring virtuoso. A working artist supporting a family, on her own terms. Clara Schumann lived at the center of 19th-century music. Her Piano Concerto, written while she was still ...

IN every person’s memory there are niches fixed, and in those niches are sacred persons. These are such as never obtruded themselves upon you, staining the pane through which their light shone with ...

Clara Schumann was the wife of Robert Schumann, but = she also enjoyed her own career as a composer and pianist. One of her = better-known works is her Piano Concerto, Op. 7. We hear it played by = ...

Nancy B. Reich, whose seminal 1985 biography of Clara Schumann established her as an important musical figure independent of her husband, composer Robert Schumann, and helped turn the musicological ...

Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. It is these three pianists—Fanny Davies (1861-1934), Ilona Eibenschütz (1873-1967), and Adelina de Lara ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Two works by these composers have been marginalized in classical music, but they were never forgotten, as their histories show. By Sarah Fritz and A.