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 ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Christian Gerhaher and Gerold Huber, peerless in lieder, have released an 11-disc set of Robert Schumann’s songs, many overlooked. By David ...

Robert Schumann: A Romantic Hero ... In the year 1840 he wrote, I believe it was, 168 songs. Songs were easy to sell; people sang them in their homes. Plus, Schumann was a literary man.

But Sunday afternoon’s program of Robert Schumann lieder, performed by German baritone Christian Gerhaher and pianist Gerold Huber, was one of those musical experiences to make you deeply ...

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 ...

You almost have to go out of your way to avoid Robert Schumann these days; it's the 200th anniversary of the composer's birth, and his music is being celebrated as far as the ear can hear. Piano ...

Allison: When she was eleven her father took in a boarder, who was also a piano student of his, by the name of Robert Schumann. Donna: Robert Schumann heard about Friedrich Wieck, because he was a ...

In 1840 appeared the first number of Schumann’s “ Myrthen,” whose dedication, Seiner geliebten Braut, breaks forth in the passionate and beautiful song, — “ Thou my soul, O thou my heart!

LeRoy, chairman of Rollins’ music department, will open with a set of German songs by Robert Schumann, including the popular “Widmung” and “Du Bist Wie Eine Blume.” ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Miah Persson, a Swedish soprano much in evidence, presents 16 of the songs Robert Schumann wrote in the hugely ...

You might think a program of German art songs — a singer singing 19th-century German poetry, ... But Sunday afternoon’s ...