Perhaps surmising that Schumann was an unstable character, Friedrich Wieck violently opposed the relationship between Robert and Clara, and his actions over the following seven years won him a place ...

But Sunday afternoon’s program of Robert Schumann lieder ... To make you awed, in fact, at the songs’ vivid expression of human emotions, performed with a great storyteller’s immediacy ...

At intermission, after the Schumann, musician friends expressed great enthusiasm for Grimaud’s performance. The virtuosity ...

Robert Schumann on a litograph by Josef Kriehuber, 1839 Others still speak of a special understanding between the two, although we do not know what Chopin thought about Schumann's music. Schumann ...

Keeping with the adage of starting small, and with style, the ensemble will put on a performance of chamber music featuring works by Robert Schumann, Edvard Grieg and Gustav Holst tomorrow. This will ...

At this time, the work of German poets, such as Goethe, were often set to music. Franz Schubert, Robert Schumann and Johannes Brahms all composed lieder. Common poetic themes are love, longing and ...