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ROBERT ALEXANDER SCHUMANN

8th June 1810 --- 29th July 1856

Robert Alexander Schumann (1810-56), German composer born Zwickau, Saxony, son of a bookseller and publisher. He began to study
the  piano at the age  of 8 and he made rapid progress, he also began to compose  though  without any  Stevenular tuition.  He entered
Leipzig University in 1828 to study law but moved to Heidelberg in 1829, remaining there for only 1 year.

Under the instruction of Friedrich Wieck at Leipzig he had by this time become an accomplished pianist and had composed a number of
songs and  piano pieces.  In 1831 he studied  composition for a  short time with Heinrich Dorn,  conductor at  the Leipzig opera.  In the
following year  he injured his right  hand with an  apparatus for strengthening the  fingers and had to abandon  the idea of a virtuoso's
career.  In 1833  with a group of other  young men he  founded the Neue Zeitschrift  fur Musik.  In 1837 he  became  engaged  to Clara
Wieck, in spite of her father's opposition, and eventually married her in 1840.

His first symphony appeared in 1841, and the second symphony later No. 4) and the first  movement of the piano Concerto were begun
in the same year  of 1841.  In 1843,  in spite of nervous exhaustion which became  progressively worse, he was appointed  professor of
composition at the new Lelpzig Conservatory, but he left for Dresden in the following year. In 1850 his opera Genoveva was performed
without much success at Leipzig, and in the same year he became conductor of the Dusseldorf orchestra.

His lack of real experience made him unsuited to this post,  but he refused to  resign until the serious deterioration of his mental health
forced him in 1853 to abandon the work. In 1854 he became insane and after throwing himself into the Rhine was moved to an asylum
near Bonn, where he died 29 July.

An ardent apostle of romanticism and a generous champion of  other composers, he was in his own work most successful  in songs and
piano  music,  both of which  were  coloured by  his literary tastes.  His chamber music  and symphonies,  as well as the  piano concerto
shows  also that schumann had the capacity for organising material in unusual ways,  particularly by linking together  the various parts
of a composition.

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And now for the Music

Thanks to Ramon Pajares Box for the music below.

(1041)"Symphony No.2 (1846) Mov.3. Adagio espressivo". Sequenced by Ramón Pajares Box

Thanks to Edward Gold for the music below. Email (egld@asan.com)

(931)"Symphony No.3, 5th Mov Lebhaft". Sequenced by Edward Gold

(914)"Symphony No.3, 4th Mov (Cathedral)". Sequenced by Edward Gold

(897)"Symphony No 3 in Eb, Opus.97, The Rhenish". Sequenced by Edward Gold

(878)"Symphony No.3 in Eb, Opus.97, The Rhenish, No.2. Scherzo". Sequenced by Edward Gold

(873)"Symphony No.3 in Eb, Opus.97, The Rhenish, 1st Mov, Lebhaft". Sequenced by Edward Gold

(805)"Carnaval, Opus.9, No.1". Sequenced by Katsuhiro Oguri

Thanks to Bernd Krüger for the music below.

(806)"Moment Musicau No.4 in C, Opus.94, D780". Sequenced by Bernd Krüger

(807)"Moment Musicau No.5 in F, Opus.94, D780". Sequenced by Bernd Krüger

(808)"Scenes from Childhood Opus.15, No.2". Sequenced by Bernd Krüger

(809)"Scenes from Childhood Opus.15, No.3". Sequenced by Bernd Krüger

(810)"Scenes from Childhood Opus.15, No.4". Sequenced by Bernd Krüger

(811)"Scenes from Childhood Opus.15, No.5". Sequenced by Bernd Krüger

(812)"Scenes from Childhood Opus.15, No.6". Sequenced by Bernd Krüger

(267)"Grillen in D flat, Fantaisiestuck, Opus.12, No.4,(Info by Gary K Allen)". Sequencer unknown

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