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
Franz Schubert
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Franz Peter Schubert was an Austrian composer of the late Classical and early Romantic eras. He was immensely prolific despite living a short life, leaving behind a vast oeuvre of more than 1,000 comp
Robert Schumann
…playing the piano occupied a good deal of his time, and he developed expensive tastes for champagne and cigars. Musically, he discovered the works of Franz Schubert, whose death in November 1828 caused Schumann to cry all night. The leading piano teacher in Leipzig was Friedrich Wieck, who recognised Schumann's…
1875 portrait, after an 1825 original
The house in which Schubert was born, today Nußdorfer Straße 54
Possible portrait of the young Franz Schubert c. 1814, attributed to Josef Abel
Caricature of Johann Michael Vogl and Franz Schubert by Franz von Schober (1825)