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 ...

Though she remains one of the most influential musicians of the 19th century, Clara Wieck Schumann is relatively unknown as a musician and composer. Historically, her life and work has only been ...

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 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 ...

Clara Schumann and Fanny Mendelssohn are often cited among the great woman composers of the 19th century whose careers were eclipsed by the more famous men in their lives—a husband and brother, ...

Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. It is these three pianists—Fanny Davies (1861-1934), Ilona Eibenschütz (1873-1967), and Adelina de Lara ...

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 ...

Nearly 200 years after her birth, pianist and composer Clara Schumann's Three Romances for Violin and Piano, Op. 22, will be performed by QCSO concertmaster Naha Greenholtz and pianist Marian Lee at 7 ...

Donna: I'm Donna Weng Friedman. I'm a pianist, I'm a teacher, and I'm thrilled to be here today with the incredible soprano Allison Charney. Allison: I'm so excited to be bringing our series Her/Music ...

‘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 ...

Robert Schumann and Johannes Brahms were close friends as well as two of the greatest composers of the Romantic era. Clara Schumann, Robert’s wife, was one of the greatest pianists of the time, also a ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Two works by these composers have been marginalized in classical music, but they were never forgotten, as their histories show. By Sarah Fritz and A.