Robert Schumann

Robert Schumann

Known for: Sound
Birthday: 1810-06-08
Deathday: 1856-07-29 (46 years old)

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Robert Schumann (8 June 1810 – 29 July 1856) was a German composer and influential music critic. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest composers of the Romantic era. Schumann left the study of law, intending to pursue a career as a virtuoso pianist. He had been assured by his teacher Friedrich Wieck that he could become the finest pianist in Europe, but a hand injury ended this dream. Schumann then focused his musical energies on composing.


Schumann's published compositions were written exclusively for the piano until 1840; he later composed works for piano and orchestra; many Lieder (songs for voice and piano); four symphonies; an opera; and other orchestral, choral, and chamber works. Works such as Carnaval, Symphonic Studies, Kinderszenen, Kreisleriana, and the Fantasie in C are among his most famous. His writings about music appeared mostly in the Neue Zeitschrift für Musik (New Journal for Music), a Leipzig-based publication which he jointly founded.


In 1840, Schumann married Friedrich Wieck's daughter Clara, against the wishes of her father, following a long and acrimonious legal battle, which found in favor of Clara and Robert. Clara also composed music and had a considerable concert career as a pianist, the earnings from which, before her marriage, formed a substantial part of her father's fortune.


Schumann suffered from a mental disorder, first manifesting itself in 1833 as a severe melancholic depressive episode, which recurred several times alternating with phases of 'exaltation' and increasingly also delusional ideas of being poisoned or threatened with metallic items. After a suicide attempt in 1854, Schumann was admitted to a mental asylum, at his own request, in Endenich near Bonn. Diagnosed with "psychotic melancholia", Schumann died two years later in 1856 without having recovered from his mental illness.

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Known for
Sound

Gender
Male

Birthday
1810-06-08

Deathday
1856-07-29 (46 years old)

Place of birth
Zwickau, Germany

Relationships
Clara Schumann (1840-09-12 - 1856-07-29), Ernestine von Fricken (1834-01-01 - 1835-01-01)

Children
Emil Schumann, Ferdinand Schumann, Marie Schumann, Julie Schumann, Eugenie Schumann, Felix Schumann

Father
August Schumann

Siblings
Julius Schumann, Karl Schumann

Citizenships
Kingdom of Saxony

Residences
Schumann-Haus · Leipzig, Germany


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