So much of classical music is bound up in big forms: mammoth symphonies, flashy concertos and grand operas. But there are also plenty of profound and beautiful moments in classical music that are ...

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 ...

Ian Hobson’s multi-year project of performing Robert Schumann’s complete piano music came to an end Friday evening at the ...

Schumann is a key figure in the Romantic movement; none investigated the Romantic’s obsession with feeling and passion quite so thoroughly as him. Mendelssohn, Chopin, Schumann, Liszt, Verdi and ...

Schumann remains one of the most misunderstood of all composers. Cellist and Schumann devotee Steven Isserlis peers behind the myths Thanks for exploring the Gramophone website. Sign up for a free ...

Robert Schumann was more than just another composer with whose music piano students must struggle: he was, Geck writes, one of “the first musicians to receive a proper formal education,” and he spent ...

The coming together of poetry and music in the form of the French lied is often attributed only to French influences, for example inspiration from the poetry of Paul Verlaine. This nationalistic ...

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 ...

Clara Schumann’s Variations on a Theme by Robert Schumann is more than just a dazzling set of piano variations—it’s a love letter in music. She took a theme from Robert’s Bunte Blätter and transformed ...

Nancy B. Reich, whose seminal 1985 biography of Clara Schumann established her as an important musical figure independent of her husband, the composer Robert Schumann, and helped turn the ...