Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Robert Schumann. This list of compositions by Robert Schumann is classified into piano, vocal, orchestral and chamber works. All works are also listed separately, by opus number. Schumann wrote almost exclusively for the piano until 1840, when he burst into song composition around the time of his marriage to Clara Wieck. The list is based on ...
Robert Schumann [n 1] (German: [ˈʁoːbɛʁt ˈʃuːman]; 8 June 1810 – 29 July 1856) was a German composer, pianist, and music critic of the early Romantic era. He composed in all the main musical genres of the time, writing for solo piano, voice and piano, chamber groups, orchestra, choir and the opera. His works typify the spirit of the ...
Schumann is often criticized for using structure merely as a framework on which to spread the themes. The resultant ‘incoherency’ is often attributed to the composer's declining mental health. The fact though remains that Schumann's predilection for allusions has rendered many relationships too subtle for the (non artistic) analyst's senses.
Schumann in a Josef Kriehuber etching from 1839, the year preceding his marriage to Clara. It was at this time that he began to compose vocal music prolifically. The following is a list of the complete vocal output of Robert Schumann (8 June 1810 – 29 July 1856). Schumann was one of the most prolific composers of the nineteenth century.
Robert Schumann music compositions. Subcategories. This category has the following 7 subcategories, out of 7 total. B. Ballets to the music of Robert ...
The Geistervariationen (Ghost Variations), or Theme and Variations in E-flat major for piano, WoO 24, composed in 1854, is the last piano work of Robert Schumann.The variations were composed in the time leading up to his admission to an asylum for the insane and are infrequently played or recorded today.
The Davidsbündler (League of David) [1] was a music society created by German Romantic composer Robert Schumann in his writings. [2] It was inspired by literary societies, real and imagined ones, such as the Serapionsbrüder (The Serapion Brethren) of ETA Hoffmann, [3] however as Richard Taruskin noted, the concept was most realized in Schumann's reviews of his fellow composers and their ...
Schumann quoted some themes from Papillons in his later work, Carnaval, Op. 9, but none of them appear in section no. 9 of that work titled "Papillons".The main waltz theme from the first movement in Papillons was quoted in the section "Florestan", with an explicit acknowledgement written in the score, and again in the final section, "Marche des Davidsbündler contre les Philistins", but ...