Clara Schumann

von Herzogenberg. Through their relationship, she became acquainted and studied with Johannes Brahms—who for some reason nicknamed her "The Oboe"—and met several other famous musicians such as Pytor Tchaikovsky, Edvard Grieg, Antonin Dvořák, and Clara Schumann. For the next decade, Smyth slowly created a name for herself in Leipzig by writing lieder, piano music, and short violin sonatas. In the 1890s, she returned to England and composed what many consider her orchestral masterpiece: "Mass in…

Shumann, had severe depression. He had so much sorrow that he had to be put in an asylum isolated from everyone including his beloved wife, Clara. Marin Alsop, conductor of the Baltimore Symphony, said, “He [Shumann] tried to commit suicide, failed, and was institutionalized. Later died in an asylum at the age of 46…The Second Symphony was written after Schumann had a very rough depressive episode. And once he got married, he hoped that maybe there would be some kind of relief for him. And this…

They played various works of Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Spohr, Schumann, Joachim Raff and Wagner. Dvo??k?s time in Prague also gave him a chance to explore and enrich his musical experience, through events such as hearing Liszt conduct his own works in 1858 and attending concerts conducted by Hans von B?low with Clara Schumann as soloist in 1859. In addition, Dvo??k broadened and deepened his knowledge of music through extensive study of scores…

Music is always in a constant cycle of change. Over 2000 years, the traditional customs of Western music was no different. Due to the social and religious developments that took place in Europe during these periods of time, concepts such as notes, scales, intervals, ideas all told stories about the character and lives of people through music. Music is a form that is defined as an expression of emotion through sound. To history, music is more than that. Utilizing what we know, recognizing…

Chapter 4 ? A Composer in the Making: Munich? And the maestro?who was a very great man?felt that she was the only one who understood. As it is always, it is to the one who understands to whom we turn, so after this the maestro found himself unconsciously teaching just that one person in class b. He would have scoffed at the notion had you been bold enough to accuse him of it, but nevertheless the truth remained. Mabel Daniels[footnoteRef:-1] [-1: Mabel Daniels, notebook…