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Robert Schumann

Also known as Robert Alexander Schumann, Robert Kurt Schumann

German composer, pianist and critic (1810–1856)

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Robert Schumann was a German composer, pianist, music critic, and conductor born in Zwickau in 1810. He was educated at Leipzig University and Heidelberg University and studied under Friedrich Wieck and Heinrich Dorn. Schumann was married to Clara Schumann and was the son of August Schumann. He held citizenship in the Kingdom of Saxony.

His notable works include Symphony No. 1, Symphony No. 2, Symphony No. 3, and Kinderszenen. Additional significant compositions are Dichterliebe, Nachtstücke für das Piano-Forte, and Liederkreis von Joseph Freyherrn von Eichendorf. He is also associated with The letters of Robert Schumann and On music and musicians. Schumann suffered from bipolar disorder and epilepsy.

Schumann died in Endenich, Bonn, on July 29, 1856, and is buried at Alter Friedhof Bonn. His works have been described in sources such as the Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary and the Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition. He is categorized within the classical, romantic, and romantic classical genres.

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Person · Open Library

Born: 1810
Died: 1856
Works: 465

Top works

The letters of Robert Schumann
Dichterliebe
Nachtstücke für das Piano-Forte
Liederkreis von Joseph Freyherrn von Eichendorf
On music and musicians

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Robert Schumann (8 June 1810 – 29 July 1856) was a German composer and influential music critic. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest composers of the Romantic era. Schumann left the study of law, intending to pursue a career as a virtuoso pianist. He had been assured by his teacher Friedrich Wieck that he could become the finest pianist in Europe, but a hand injury ended this dream.…

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type: Person
Gender: Male
Origin: Germany
Active from: 1810
Active to: 1856

classicalcomposergermanromanticromantic classicalto clean up

Discography

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners: 1,079,926
Total plays: 12,679,727

Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

Development of the Colle-Salvetti correlation-energy formula into a functional of the electron density
· 1988 · cited 95,712x
Hallmarks of Cancer: The Next Generation
· 2011 · cited 56,512x
Research electronic data capture (REDCap)—A metadata-driven methodology and workflow process for providing translational research informatics support
· 2009 · cited 46,778x
Regression Shrinkage and Selection Via the Lasso
· 1996 · cited 39,745x
The PHQ-9
· 2001 · cited 39,444x

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Quotes

“To send light into the depths of the human heart -- this is the artist's calling!”
“Sometimes I am so full of music, and so overflowing with melody, that I find it simply impossible to write down anything.”
“The talent works, the genius creates.”
“In order to compose, all you need to do is remember a tune that nobody else has thought of.”
“Perhaps genius alone understands genius fully. (Sometimes translated as: Perhaps only genius fully understands genius)”

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Works in European collections

36 objects attributed to Robert Schumann, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana

Il fiore di Loto [Música notada]

Drei clavier-sonatem für die Jugend [Música notada] :]op. 118

30 mélodies de Robert Schumann [Música notada]

I due granatieri [Música notada] =]Die beiden Grenadiere : canzone

Die beiden Grenadiere = The two Grenadiers

I'll not complain = Ich grolle nicht : op. 48, n. 7

Les bohémiens [Música notada]= Zigeunerleben : choir à 4 voix, op. 29, nº 3

Novelleten [Music Noted]:] op. 21

Andante and variations: op. 46

Non t'odio, no [Música notada] :]op. 40, n. 7, 1840

Il fiore di Loto [Música notada]

I due granatieri [Música notada]

Second Symphony, op. 61 [Music Noted]

Third Symphony, op. 97 [Music Noted]

Ouvertüre zu Lord Byrons dramatischem Gedicht Manfred [Música notada] : op. 115

Ouvertüre zur Oper Genoveva [Música notada] : op. 81

Konzert für Pianoforte mit Orchester, op. 54 [Música notada]

Trio nº 2, F-dur für Pianoforte, Violine u. Violoncell, op. 80 [Música notada]

Trio nº 3, G-moll für Pianoforte, Violine u. Violoncell, op. 110 [Música notada]

Trio nº 1, D-moll für Pianoforte, Violine u. Violoncell, op. 63 [Música notada]

Au soir [Music Noted]: op. 12

Berceuse Schumann [Music Noted]

Fugue-Schumann [Music Noted]

Feuilles variées [Música notada]

Saint-Nicolas [Música notada]

The two Grenadiers/[Robert Schumann]

The two Grenadiers

“Now you have done me the first pain”: a. d. song cycle “Woman’s Love and Life”/text by Adalbert von Chamisso. Music by Rob. Schumann

I think yours: duet/(Rob. Schumann)

I don’t groll! / Text by H. Heine. Music by Robert Schumann

Intermezzo

Still like the night/Bohm

The Linden Tree

Talismane: Song/(Robert Schumann)

Henry the Vogler

Still like the night/Bohm

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Encyclopedic overview

Robert Schumann (/ˈʃuːmɑːn/; German: [ˈʁoːbɐ̯t ˈʃuːman]; 8 June 1810 – 29 July 1856) 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 groups, orchestra, choir and the opera. His works typify the spirit of the Romantic era in German music.

Schumann was born in Zwickau, Saxony, to an affluent middle-class family with no musical connections, and was initially unsure whether to pursue a career as a lawyer or to make a living as a pianist-composer. He studied law at the universities of Leipzig and Heidelberg but his main interests were music and Romantic literature. From 1829 he was a student of the piano teacher Friedrich Wieck, but his hopes for a career as a virtuoso pianist were frustrated by a worsening problem with his right hand, and he concentrated on composition. His early works were mainly piano pieces, including the large-scale Carnaval, Davidsbündlertänze (Dances of the League of David), Fantasiestücke (Fantasy Pieces), Kreisleriana and Kinderszenen (Scenes from Childhood) (1834–1838). He was a co-founder of the Neue Zeitschrift für Musik (New Musical Journal) in 1834 and edited it for ten years. In his writing for the journal and in his music he distinguished between two contrasting aspects of his personality, dubbing these alter egos "Florestan" for his impetuous self and "Eusebius" for his gentle poetic side.

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