The author of a newly reissued Robert Schumann biography presents a guide to the misunderstood composer's life and music. 5 Things You Never Knew About Schumann 5 Things You Never Knew About Schumann ...

In MutualArt’s artist press archive, Robert Schumann is featured in School of Lord Byron: How the First Global Celebrity Influenced Art, Portraiture and Attitudes to Built Heritage, a piece from The ...

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 weakest.

Robert Schumann: Life and Death of a Musician by John Worthen 496pp, Yale, £25 The life story of Robert Schumann (1810-1856) is a gift, not only to biographers, but to Hollywood film studios. The ...

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 ...

BiographySchumann was always the shadowy one. When I was a music student, we learned about Chopin the socialite and Liszt the womaniser and Brahms the bearded bear. Schumann, though, was a composer we ...

JMW Turner, Eugène Delacroix and Théodore Géricault were among the artists inspired by the much-portrayed poet whose concern for Venice and the Parthenon Marbles has a resonance 200 years after his ...

All this week, we'll be focusing our lens on the music of Robert Schumann and the lasting impact of his work. Leading the conversation is pianist Jonathan Biss, who's making a 30-concert project out ...