The Great Composers in Words and Music - Robert Schumann (in englischer Sprache)

1 Introduction
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3 Leafing through the latest biographies of the 19th-century German composer Robert Schumann, it is tempting to...
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5 One of Schumann's best loved melodies: Träumerei ("Dreaming") from his 1838 piano collection Kinderszenen (Scenes from..
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7 In late March 1828, after leaving high school, Schumann matriculated at the University of Leipzig to study law.
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9 In the summer of 1829, Schumann left Leipzig for Heidelberg, ostensibly to continue his studies...
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11 Schumann departed Heidelberg for Leipzig in September 1830...
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13 The summer of 1833 brought with it a deep depression that would later recur at roughly evenly spaced periods...
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15 Schumann's affair with Ernestine ended towards the end of 1835, a few months after the composer discovered her...
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17 "Sometimes your music actually frightens me, and I wonder: is it really true that the creator of such things is going...
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19 If 1840 was Schumann's year of song, then 1841 was his year of orchestral music...
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21 1842 witnessed another creative departure: chamber music...
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23 Schumann's next main musical projects were orchestral in nature...
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25 1845 also witnessed a series of works based on Schumann's continuing study of musical counterpoint...
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27 Schumann's new-found interest in dramatic music would give rise to two additional large-scale works: Manfred, ...
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29 Schumann had long been trying to find a lucrative salaried position - in Leipzig, Dresden or elsewhere.
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31 Schumann held his Düsseldorf position for three seasons, a period during which he continued to compose large-scale...
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33 All too aware of his deteriorating condition, and afraid of causing physical harm to his wife, Schumann asked that he...
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35 The story, however, does not end here...
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