Clara Schumann did something unthinkable for a woman in the 19th century. She composed music. And, lots of it. Solo piano music, romances for violin, a Piano Concerto, and most all of it was written ...

The 200th Birthday of Clara Schumann takes place in September, celebrating the legacy of music this wonderful woman left behind. With her birthday approaching on Sept. 13, The New York Times published ...

Clara Wieck Schumann was a German musician -- a pianist, composer, and teacher who lived from 1819-1896. She started playing piano at age 5, and was a child prodigy. She and her husband Robert ...

Clara Schumann, one of the busiest concert pianists of the 19th century, was acclaimed throughout Europe for her power, her nuance, her technique, her soul. "She has a musical genius of the highest ...

Who was Clara Schumann? The wife of the great composer Robert Schumann, is the glib answer. How many people know more about her than that? Perhaps not many, but the audience Saturday evening at ...

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). Clara ...

One of the 19 th century’s most important musical power couples, Robert and Clara Schumann, will be the focus Thursday of a concert by the Chamber Music Society of Palm Beach. More to the point for ...

Born in 1819, Clara Schumann was a composer and piano teacher - regarded as one of the most distinguished pianists of the Romantic era. This weekend The Albany Symphony will celebrate her life and ...

‘I once believed that I possessed creative talent, but I gave up on that idea,” the celebrated young German pianist and composer Clara Wieck wrote in 1839. “A woman must not desire to compose — there ...

Pianist Michelle Cann will perform Clara Schumann's first and only piano concerto with the Arkansas Symphony and conductor Geoffrey Robson this weekend at Little Rock's Robinson Center Performance ...

IN every person’s memory there are niches fixed, and in those niches are sacred persons. These are such as never obtruded themselves upon you, staining the pane through which their light shone with ...