Robert Schumann (1810-1856) was the quiet one, the tormented genius. A serious illness prevented him from becoming a pianist, but he fell in love with and in 1840 married Clara, the daughter of his teacher Friedrich Wieck against her father’s wishes. In 1843, Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy appointed him lecturer in composition at the conservatory in Leipzig. A year later, the couple moved to Dresden. Then, in 1850, he became the Musical Director of the city of Düsseldorf. But his demons followed him wherever he went and he tried to kill himself by jumping into the Rhine four years later. He died two years later in a sanatorium.
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Barbara Meier has written widely on composers such as Mahler, Strauss, and Schoenberg.
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- PublisherHaus Publishing
- Publication date2005
- ISBN 10 1904341543
- ISBN 13 9781904341543
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages176
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