Clara Josephine Schumann ([ˈklaːʁa ˈʃuːman]; née Wieck; 13 September 1819 – 20 May 1896) was a German pianist, composer, and piano teacher. Regarded as...
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husband for his daughter, Schumann married Wieck's daughter Clara in 1840. In the years immediately following their wedding Schumann composed prolifically...
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compositions by Clara Schumann, initially arranged by genre, sortable by date of completion (click on "Comp.Date" column header). Koch, Paul-August. "Clara Wieck-Schumann:...
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1842 Schumann had completed no chamber music at all, with the exception of an early piano quartet composed in 1829. Following his marriage to Clara in 1840...
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minor, Op. 7, was composed by Clara Wieck, better known as Clara Schumann after her later marriage to Robert Schumann. She completed her only finished...
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and has long been a staple of the pianist's repertoire. Both Schumann and his wife Clara considered his solo piano works too difficult for the general...
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Johannes Brahms (section The Schumanns and Leipzig)
With Joachim's assistance, Brahms sought Robert Schumann's approval, receiving both his and Clara Schumann's vigorous support and guidance. Robert and later...
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Composed in 1846, the Piano Trio in G minor, opus 17 by Clara Schumann is considered her greatest, most mature four-movement work. It is her only piano...
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Robert Schumann. Brahms and Joachim became close friends for life. In 1853 Brahms had aroused the greatest admiration from Schumann and his wife Clara, a...
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Franz Liszt (section Robert and Clara Schumann)
of his time, including Hector Berlioz, Frédéric Chopin, Robert Schumann, Clara Schumann and Richard Wagner, among others. Liszt coined the terms "transcription"...
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Robert Schumann, was first completed in 1841. Schumann heavily revised the symphony in 1851, and it was this version that reached publication. Clara Schumann...
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publishers. In August 1841 and January 1843 Schumann revised the piece, but was unsuccessful. His wife Clara, an accomplished pianist, then urged him to...
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death, about the pianist Clara Schumann and her marriage with the composer Robert Schumann. After a performance of Robert Schumann's Piano Concerto in A minor...
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aus "Liebesfrühling" (12 songs, of which numbers 2, 4 and 11 are by Clara Schumann) (1840) Op. 39, Liederkreis (Eichendorff), twelve songs (1840) Op. 40...
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She was one of eight children and the youngest daughter of Robert and Clara Schumann. Eugenie studied piano with her mother and with Ernst Rudorff in Berlin...
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Friedrich Wieck (category Robert Schumann)
daughter, Clara, a child prodigy who was undertaking international concert tours by age eleven and who later married her father's pupil Robert Schumann, in...
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Quatre Polonaises pour le pianoforte by Clara Schumann was published in 1831, and is labeled as opus 1. A work labeled as a "Polonaise" exhibits musical...
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4 Pièces caractéristiques by Clara Schumann was composed between 1834 and 1836, and published in 1836. The entire work is labeled as opus 5, and is written...
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Lindenmuseum Clara Schumann is a small museum in Schmorsdorf [de], in the municipality of Müglitztal, near Dresden in Saxony, Germany. It is dedicated...
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on 16 October 1851 by Clara Schumann and Wilhelm Joseph von Wasielewski. It was given its official premiere by Clara Schumann and Ferdinand David in...
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Clara Schumann claimed to be "endlessly looking forward to the second sonata", but nevertheless Robert revised it several times. At Clara Schumann's request...
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Fantasiestücke, Op. 12 (redirect from Fantasiestücke (op. 12) (Schumann))
this piece, which has both "passion together with nocturnal calm." Schumann said to Clara to have perceived in "In der Nacht" the story of Grillparzer's Hero...
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to its impressive size. Notably, the renowned pianist and composer Clara Schumann visited the Linden Tree multiple times between 1836 and 1849. In her...
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a commission by a prominent soloist of the day. Schumann gave the pieces to his wife Clara Schumann, whom he once described as his own "right hand,"...
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gesture used throughout the piece as a signal and homage to his wife, Clara Schumann – this motive was used to the same end in his first piano sonata. Also...
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the artistic legacy of Robert Schumann, Clara's husband, who had died in 1856.[citation needed] While Robert Schumann had been a progressive critic and...
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Joseph Joachim (section The Schumanns, Brahms; Berlin)
tours. In 1853, he was invited by Robert Schumann to the Lower Rhine Music Festival, where he met Clara Schumann and Brahms, with whom he performed for...
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origin in early 1836, when Schumann composed a piece entitled Ruines expressing his distress at being parted from his beloved Clara Wieck (later to become...
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a German pianist, soprano and piano teacher. She was the mother of Clara Schumann. Born Mariane Tromlitz in Greiz, she was the first child of George Christian...
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to the Russian cellist Mathieu Wielhorsky, it was written with Schumann's wife Clara in mind, who would be the pianist at the premiere on 8 December...
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