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BIOGRAPHY OF ROBERT SCHUMANN

BIOGRAPHY OF ROBERT SCHUMANN. By Viviana Trejos. Robert Alexander Schumann (8  June 1810 – 29 July 1856 ). He is regarded as one of the greatest and most representative composers of the Romantic  era. Schumann left the study of law to return to music . BIOGRAPHY.

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BIOGRAPHY OF ROBERT SCHUMANN

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  1. BIOGRAPHY OF ROBERT SCHUMANN ByViviana Trejos

  2. Robert Alexander Schumann (8 June 1810 – 29 July 1856) He is regarded as one of the greatest and most representative composers of the Romantic era. Schumann left the study of law to return to music.

  3. BIOGRAPHY House where Robert Schumann was born in 1810 Music room of Schumann

  4. A youthful Robert Schumann Schumann began receiving general musical and piano instruction at the age of seven from Baccalaureus Kuntzsch, a teacher at the Zwickau high school. The boy immediately developed a love of music and worked at creating musical compositions himself, without the aid of Kuntzsch. At age 14, Schumann wrote an essay on the aesthetics of music and also contributed to a volume, edited by his father, titled Portraits of Famous.

  5. During Eastertide 1830 he heard the Italian violinist, violist, guitarist, and composer Niccolò Paganini play in Frankfurt. In July he wrote to his mother, "My whole life has been a struggle between Poetry and Prose, or call it Music and Law."

  6. His romance Life… In 1840, against her father's wishes, Schumann married pianist Clara Tieck, daughter of his former teacher, the day before she legally came of age at 21. Had they waited one day, they would have no longer needed her father's consent, which had been the subject of a long and acrimonious legal battle, which found in favor of Clara and Robert. Clara also composed music and had a considerable concert career, the earnings from which formed a substantial part of her father's fortune.

  7. Compositions • Fantasie C major, Op. 17 (1836, revised 1839) • 1. SempreFantasticamenteedAppassionatamente • 2. Moderato, Sempreenergico • 3. Lento sostenutoSempre piano

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