Clara Schumann

performer, Clara Wieck, or later and better known as Clara Schumann. While men certainly aided her success in extensively varied aspects of her career and formation as a musician, including in training, in artistic influences,…

However, from this time Clara Schumann was born to be a renowned pianist and composer in Germany and across Europe. Clara was self conscious about her gender is the music business, but she didn’t let that stop her. As a child prodigy, Clara’s career took off at a young age and flourished for sixty years. Clara Schumann was born in Leipzig, Germany on September 13, 1819 to her mother, Marianne Wieck, and father, Friedrich Wieck. Her mom was a concert pianist and her dad was a piano teacher…

1819, Clara Schumann was a German romantic composer. She, and her husband Robert Schumann (also a composer) are considered the most important composers of their era. She was a major influence on many composers and musicians of the time, including the distinguished Johannes Brahms. Mother of eight children, main income of the house, pianist for her husbands work, and conductor in her own right, Clara's legacy and rightful place in history books stands till this day. Born Clara…

Robert Schumann was a German composer and music critic. He could be considered one of the most influential composer of the Romantic era. Schumann works as a writer and a critic played a great role in the works of some of the leading composers of his days and even today. The most unique detail in Robert Schumann's work is its relations to literature. Though several of his compositions portray scenes from poems, characters, plays and novels there are some that are about place and people that were…

Clara Schumann was the wife of Robert Schumann, the famous German composer. She was a concert pianist, a talented composer, and she mothered seven children. Being the time that is was, a famous woman composer was few and far between, but Clara was able to make a name for herself as a respected musician. The goal of this paper is to explore the areas of Clara Schumann’s life as not only a devoted mother to her husband and children, but her skill as a concert pianist and her talent as a composer…

vivid details particularly on the emotional spectrum. This is also showed in many admirers of Paul’s writing were predominantly women. Schumann said in respect for Jean Paul’s writing, “ In all of his works, Jean Paul mirrors himself, but always as two persons, he is Albano and Schoppe [in Titan], Seibankäs and Leibgeber [Seibenkäs], and Vult and Walt [Flegeljahire]”. Schumann also had projections of himself much like how Paul portrayed in his novels. This could have been the first sign of…

Schumann’s Involvement in Resurrecting J.S. Bach As editor and writer for his own music journal, Neue Zeitscrift für Musik, Robert Schumann made it his personal mission to write about worthy composers and lift them up as examples to the music community. He was tired of the “Philistines” of the current music establishment, such as Wagner and Meyerbeer, who he felt were commercial and pretentious. He brought Brahms and Chopin to Germany’s notice, because he felt that their music was “honest…

Along with Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Heinrich Heine, he was known as one of the main contributors of text to German lieder in the Romantic era and was set by composers such as Robert and Clara Schumann, Johannes Brahms, and Richard Strauss. His personal life and family inspired much of his writing. Liebesfrühling, being one of his greatest sets of poems, was written about his future wife, Luise Wiethaus Fischer whom he married in 1821. Of their six children, their daughter, Luise (age…

We filed onto the risers, our stage, and my choir director started talking to the choir, and then the other soloist in the choir and I sang for the night. As I and the other soloist made sure to frantically flip through the solos to attempt to make sure we remembered the lines, the red looming curtains opened. The distant stage lights were shining down upon me and the rest of my group of singers with hundreds of judging eyes of parents, friends, teachers, and other important people. The pressure…

Elle Varner, A “Conversational Lush” Watching her mom and dad do their thing in the music industry, Elle would follow in their footsteps. She is born to two musically inclined parents and spent much of her remarkable childhood years in the studio and in the entertainment world. Elle's talents are many but include singing, playing the flute, guitar and piano. Born on February 12, 1989, Gabrielle “Elle” Varner has become a popular R&B recording artist. It's no wonder as her family is actually…