Robert Schumann
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Robert Schumann 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 gro
Portrait, c. 1839
Schumann's birthplace, now the Robert Schumann House, after an anonymous colourised lithograph
Opening of Schumann's Op. 1, the Abegg Variations
Neue Zeitschrift fur Musik, edited by Schumann from 1835
Clara Schumann
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Clara Josephine Schumann was a German virtuoso pianist, composer, and piano teacher. Regarded as one of the most distinguished pianists of the Romantic era, she exerted her influence over the course o
Robert Schumann
…poetic side. Despite the bitter opposition of Wieck, who did not regard his pupil as a suitable husband for her, Schumann married Wieck's daughter Clara in 1840. In the years immediately following their wedding Schumann composed prolifically, writing, first, songs and song‐cycles including Frauenliebe…
Portrait by Franz Hanfstaengl, 1857
Clara Wieck, from an 1835 lithograph
1839 lithograph
Schönefeld church, where the Schumanns married on 12 September 1840