Schumann

Abstract

Robert Schumann (1810-1856) was renowned German composer born in Zwickau (Saxony). Robert Schumann and the Austrian composer Franz Schubert (1797-1828), are considered the creators of romantic lieder. Entitled collections Highlights: The Poet’s Love (1840), Romances (1841) and Ballads (1847). Schumann was the first and greatest musician-writer ever. Hence poetry plays a role of such importance in musical creation, yea rather, that it can’t exclude from their music. He also composed of masterful lieder cycles, remarkable piano works, symphonies, concertos, sonatas, all of them inspired melodies full of exquisite and framed within a refined compositional technique. The music of Schumann, full of contrasts, with opposite continually moods, sentimental in the best sense of the word and vigorously healthy and virile, youthful romanticism awakens our faith in the ideals and hopes of escape, from time to when, of everyday existence into the fantasy world that dwells Beauty and Poetry. With the intervention and aid of justice, after a struggle that lasted more than four years, finally in 1840 the artist was able to get the hand of his bride, the concert pianist Clara Wieck-Schumann (1819-1896). Moreover, throughout its existence Schumann served as a music teacher, pianist, occasional respected conductor and music critic.

As an important fact, the great Sonata in B minor for piano, composed in 1853 by Liszt (Franz Liszt See Academic Act 49), is dedicated to Robert Schumann.