But she was a woman. And women didn't hash out careers as classical composers, their works programmed alongside the Great Names performed around the globe. "Clara Schumann is about as clear an ...

Though many did not get the attention they deserved, there are plenty of female composers who found great ... Robert Schumann was a distinguished composer herself. At the age of 14, Clara Schumann ...

Part of the reason that he's ascended to the pantheon of the great composers is because his wife, Clara, outlived him by 40 years and played the music of Schumann for audiences really all over.

Cellist Susan Lamb Cook started the Great Composers Chamber Music Series ... Adelaide Ristori and Clara Schumann. Cook’s vision to combine the music of Schumann with the personal tale of actress ...

She later married fellow pianist and composer Robert Schumann ... in a large auditorium listening to a great pianist play Bach or Beethoven owes a lot to Clara Schumann." Schumann was the first ...

In 1835, the piano concerto by Schumann (then Clara Wieck, not yet married to the composer Robert Schumann ... “You can see she was a great virtuoso because what she writes is very challenging ...

This year's audience poll of Australia's favourite classical music features the most music by women ever, thanks to their ...

Clara Schumann had one of the most extraordinary lives in 19th century music, says Phil Hebblethwaite. Against the odds, she made it as a pianist, and she ought to have been recognised as a great ...

Behind every great composer of our times there was a reason. In the case of Robert Schumann his wife Clara was the reason why he composed. His best music came after their marriage. During his ...

and it’s thanks to his wife and fellow composer Clara that we can still hear it today. Schumann sat down in 1837 to write what he said would be ‘a compromise between a symphony, a concerto and a huge ...

Clara Wieck, the greatest female pianist of the age ... Even the sophisticated, debonair Mendelssohn could be dismissive. He thought of Schumann as a critic and not a serious composer in those early ...