Clara Wieck Schumann was her father’s prodigy, a composer’s wife and a musician in her own right. Her story is still ...

Clara Schumann did more than anyone to popularise ... Clara continued to compose, she bore eight children, and she kept playing, giving the first performances of many of Robert's works as well ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the ...

Robert Schumann ended his life in an insane asylum. Three of his and Clara's children suffered from physical or mental illness and died before their mother did. To support the family, Clara ...

The child looks calmly up ... Once when I was at Frankfort, Clara Schumann sent me this word : ‘ Hasten.’ I left all my affairs, and came to watch for many months beside this beloved ...

Robert Schumann (1810-1856) was not a child prodigy like his contemporaries Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847), Frederic Chopin (1810-1849), Franz Liszt (1811-1886)—or his wife Clara (1819-1896).

Clara Schumann did something unthinkable for a woman in the 19th century. She composed music. And, lots of it. Solo piano music, romances for violin, a Piano Concerto, and most all of it was ...

In the world of classical music, Clara Schumann’s husband ... She had their first child a year after they married and became pregnant nine more times, bearing eight children over the next ...

Explore them here. Discover the values that drive the story. As a child, my great love was National Geographic. On long car trips I’d sit, crammed amid the luggage, but really exploring the ...