Intensity. There's no more appropriate word to describe Robert Schumann. Everything in his life seemed to be done with nothing less than total commitment, from his unrelenting pursuit of the love of ...

Take a look at Schumann’s 78-key piano, a new invention at the time, and then listen to Dr. Richard Kogan, violinist Scott Yoo and more perform Schumann’s piano quintet. How Other Composers Changed ...

Jane Jones introduces the concerto that was saved for posterity by a virtuoso wife! One of the most talked about partnerships in classical music must be that between Robert Schumann and Clara Wieck, ...

At the dawn of the Romantic era, Schumann’s rich musical imagination takes flight in enchanting works for solo piano. Schumann’s first 23 opus numbers are all for piano and represent a unique phase in ...

Clara Wieck Schumann was a German musician -- a pianist, composer, and teacher who lived from 1819-1896. She started playing piano at age 5, and was a child prodigy. She and her husband Robert ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by A pairing of Clara and Robert Schumann’s piano concertos, Kurt Weill’s symphonies and Steve Reich’s string quartets are among the highlights. Beatrice ...

This is the second instalment of a period-instruments series pairing Schumann’s concertos and piano trios. Alexander Melnikov plays an 1837 Erard in the Piano Concerto, an 1847 Streicher in the Trio ...

His performing career was thwarted, but Schumann’s wild imagination and prolific output made his name as a great romantic. Schumann was the Romantic era’s gentle revolutionary. Although he was ...

Promising young Irish pianist Finghin Collins will hold a solo recital in Korea at Kumho Art Hall in central Seoul on May 11. Collins, the first prize winner of the Clara Haskil International Piano ...

Is Schumann’s songful Piano Concerto the music of a dreamer or a bright-eyed, still youthful romantic? Between them, young Canadian pianist Jan Lisiecki and his conductor, Antonio Pappano, succeed in ...