Very often, the music of women composers is condemned to particular concerts "For Women Composers Only". Rather than promoting their creativity, this practice gives the impression that women composers need special assistance, that their music is inferior, and that they require affirmative action. Instead, their music should be allowed to stand on its own, interdependent with music of men composers, especially their colleagues: those with whom they interact and share influence. Clara Schumann performed extensively and studied piano, voice, violin, instrumentation, wrote, and published music. Her playing was characterized by technical mastery, interpretation, and a depth of feeling. All her compositions date from 1853 or before, including twenty-nine songs, three partsongs, four pieces for piano and orchestra, twenty pieces for solo piano, and three piano concertos by Beethoven and Mozart. Only her love for her husband Robert Schumann surpassed her passion for music. Clara Schumann was as a champion and interpreter of the music of her husband Robert Schumann and Johannes Brahms, and was a direct influence on their music.
Clara Schumann.
Clara Schumann was born September 13, 1819 to Marianne and Frederick Wieck (pronounced Veek), in the German city of Leipzig. Frederick chose the name Clara for his child, a name that means bright, or shining. From the time of her birth, Frederick made a decision that Clara would one day grow into a great musician, a virtuoso.
Clara's father was a music teacher, and in the nineteenth century, since there were no radios nor televisions, at night families would entertain each other with conversation, "parlor games" like cards or charades, and music. In a city with so many music lovers, an ambitious piano teacher like Frederick found no shortage of students. All day long, "proper" young men and women streamed in and out of the Wiecks" house. Clara's mother, Marianne, taught piano, also.
Robert Schumann Robert Schumann was born on the 8 of June 1810 in Zwickau, Saxony. ... His father, August Schumann was a bookseller. ... Clara father was not very happy about it. ... Clara has been very supportive towards Robert. ... As a composer Schumann's gifts are clear....
It was in Leipzig, at the age of twenty, Schumann met Friedrich Wieck. The name Wieck would come to be the most influential of all to Schumann. Wieck's claim to fame was his prodigal daughter, Clara, with whom Robert would find himself falling in love in just a few years. ... In order to understand Schumann's life, one absolutely must have studied his relationship with his wife, Clara. The daughter of Friedrich Wieck, Schumann's long-time music teacher, Clara was a virtuoso pianist, always better than Robert was, which quite possibl could have led to the self-destruction of...
All seemed well for Schumann, but soon he was to face even more struggles; this one a fight to marry the woman he loved, Clara Wieck. ... Schumann first met Clara when she was nine years old and he eighteen. ... Schumann found it exciting how Clara played his Papillons and other pieces. ... About to leave for a piano concert tour with her father, Clara had Schumann over who escorted her down stairs to say goodbye. ... Forbidding Clara to see or communicate with Schumann, he sent her to Dresden, but when Schumann followed her there, Friedrich became so violently angry that he threatened to...
All seemed well for Schumann, but soon he was to face even more struggles; this one a fight to marry the woman he loved, Clara Wieck. ... Schumann first met Clara when she was nine years old and he eighteen. ... Schumann found it exciting how Clara played his Papillons and other pieces. ... About to leave for a piano concert tour with her father, Clara had Schumann over who escorted her down stairs to say goodbye. ... Forbidding Clara to see or communicate with Schumann, he sent her to Dresden, but when Schumann followed her there, Friedrich became so violently angry that he threatened to...
His mother was Johanna Schumann. ... In 1826, Robert Schumann's father died. ... Her name was Clara Wieck. Robert Schumann was rejected when he asked Clara's father for her hand in marriage. ... Then in 1845, Robert Schumann and Clara Wieck married even without Clara's father's blessings. ...
July 1837: Chopin and Wodzinska splitted up and Chopin went back to Paris where Chopin meet Robert Schumann and Clara Wieck, later Clara Schumann. ... He met the lovers Clara and Robert Schumann. ... Brahms moved in the Schumann's house for helping the wife, Clara Schuman. Brahms and Clara Schumann had fallen in love with each other. ... July 29, 1856: Schumann died and Brahms staied away from Clara Schumann. ...
Among these were Robert and Clara Schumann, both of whom caused a great influence in his life and career. ... The experience and familiarity of the different popular styles he acquired from his previous jobs, the conservative tastes influenced upon him by German music teacher Eduard Marxsen and the sentimental impact Clara Schumann had on him, contributed all to his unique style of composition that ultimately let him to fame. ...
Among these artists were Franz Schubert (1797-1828), Robert Schumann (1819-1896), Clara Wieck Schumann (1819-1849), Frederic Chopin (1810-1849), Franz Liszt (1811-1886), Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847), Hector Beriloz (1803-1869), Peter Ilyic Tchaikovsky (1840-1893), Bedrich Smetana (1824-1884), Antonin Dvorak (1841-1904), Johannes Brahms (1833-1897), Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901), Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924), Richard Wagner (1813-1883), and Gustav Mahler (1860-1911). ...
