Essays Tagged: "Robert Schumann"
Robert Schumann
Robert SchumannRobert Alexander Schumann was born in the small riverside town ofZwickau, Saxony, in ... mann was born in the small riverside town ofZwickau, Saxony, in 1810.The youngest of five children, Robert Schumannwas brought up in comfortable, middle-class respectability. As a child, heapparently ... class respectability. As a child, heapparently exhibited no remarkable abilities.At the age of six, Robert was sent to the local preparatory school, runby Archdeacon Dohner. He had in fact already beg ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Music History & Studies > Performers & Composers
Sources of information on Composer Rober Schumann
on I was attempting to acquire.The single best source that I found was a book titled The Letters of Robert Schumann. The book contained the most extensive personal correspondence between Schumann, his ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Music History & Studies > Performers & Composers
Biography of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. 943 words. His family, childhood, and works are mentioned in this relatively short bio.
gang Amadeus MozartWolfgang Amadeus Mozart is acknowledged as the greatest natural genius of music. Robert Schumann wrote, "There are things in the world about which nothing can be said, as Mozart's C ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Music History & Studies > Performers & Composers
Should Someone With Depression Still Run for President of the United States of America
Imagine you are attending a party with Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Robert Schumann, Ludwig von Beethoven, Edgar Allen Poe, Mark Twain, Vincent van Gogh, and Georgia O' ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Mental Health
Robert Schumann
Robert Schumann Many composers throughout history have influenced those who came after them. ... own touches the beginning of Beethoven turned into individual pieces of musical achievement. Robert Schumann devoted himself to becoming a concert pianist. An injury to his right hand cut his d ... of his energy to composition and to the Leipzig Neue Zeitschrist Fur Musik (New Journal of Music.) Robert was the first man to recognize the music of Chopin and Brahms as well as Schubert's instrumen ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Music History & Studies > Performers & Composers
Clara Weick Schumann
entury musical Europe. She premiered new works by Frederic Chopin, Johannes Brahms, and her husband Robert Schumann. While she composed prolifically from the age of nine, her spectacular performing ca ... erial about both Clara and her husband available to us today.As a teenager, Clara fell in love with Robert Schumann, one of her father's piano students, who became one of the most beloved composers of ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Music History & Studies > Performers & Composers
Mendelssohn, biography
as. Mendelssohn met many composers since he was an accompanist. These composers were Liszt, Chopin, Schumann, and Rossini. One of Mendelssohn's greatest accomplishments, was he wrote the overture to A ...
Subjects: Art Essays
The Leipzig String Quartet
aster at the end of the quartet.The third section was quartet in a major, opus 41, no 3 composed by Robert Schumann. One of them was Adagio molto. Indeed, Robert Schumann was a composer of the Romanti ... ummer Night's Dream", which has accompanied many a bride down the aisle."(www.felixmendelssohn.com).Robert SchumannRobert Schumann was born in1810 in Zwickau, Germany. During his first ten years as a ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Music History & Studies > Performers & Composers
Clara Wiek essay assignment
it was he who taught Clara and her mother Marianne. He even gave lessons to Clara's future husband, Robert Schumann. After Clara's parents divorced after eight years of marriage, she went to live with ... rform her music from memory.To her father's dismay, Clara had fallen completely head-over-heels for Robert Schumann by 1836. Like most modern fathers, Friedrich thought that Schumann was unsuitable fo ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Music History & Studies > Performers & Composers