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
Johannes Brahms
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Johannes Brahms was a German composer, pianist, and conductor of the mid-Romantic period. His music features expressive counterpoint, freer dissonance, rhythmic vitality, and traditional forms. His wo
Photograph from 1891 of the building in Hamburg where Brahms was born. It was destroyed by bombing in 1943.
Ede Reményi (l.) and Brahms in 1852
Brahms in 1853