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).

Robert Schumann was a German composer and critic born in Zwickau on June 8, 1810. A quirky, problematic genius, he wrote some of the greatest music of the Romantic era, and also some of the weakest.

sometimes known as Robert Alexander Schumann, (8 June 1810 – 29 July 1856) was a German composer, aesthete and influential music critic. Schumann's intention was to pursue a career as a ...

Dichterliebe sets 16 poems by Heinrich Heine, published three years earlier. Schumann was acquainted with the poet, but didn’t know him well. ‘Both Robert and Clara met Heine at some point: Clara in ...

The concerto fires up with such vigour that it feels like Brahms, not Schumann. This is ... which Faust is joined by Jean-Guihen Queyras and Alexander Melnikov, is light, expressive, imaginative.

Schumann’s father was a Saxon bookseller and publisher, well-to-do and cultured. Robert was his fifth child and, though he and his wife were not musical, they encouraged their son’s musical talents ...

Two of the band's supporting members were Robert Schumann and his wife Clara. She was the inspiration and he was the composer of a set of dances he called "Davidsbuendlertaenze." Richard Goode ...