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	Robert Schumann - a biography of the classical composer and overview of his works
		When Schumann was in his teens, his father died and his sister committed suicide in quick succession, events that were to have a deep impact on the young musician.
		Schumann maintained his association with the Wiecks and when Clara was of the right age, he sought to marry her but her father forbade it.
		Although Clara was extremely talented in her own right as both pianist and composer, her career became secondary to that of her husband's and there are suggestions that Robert's jealousy was a factor in constraining her career.
	www.mfiles.co.uk /composers/Robert-Schumann.htm (749 words)

	Essentials of Music - Composers
		Clara was the wife of Robert Schumann, and one of the most celebrated performers of the century.
		After Robert's death in 1856, Clara continued an active concert career while supporting a family of eight, and was a champion of the music of Johannes Brahms, with whom she maintained a lifelong relationship.
		Clara Schumann's music is typical for the early Romantic Era.
	www.essentialsofmusic.com /composer/schumann_c.html (465 words)

	Clara Schumann - MSN Encarta
		Clara Schumann (1819-1896), German pianist, born Clara Josephine Wieck in Leipzig and trained by her father, Friedrich Wieck.
		A pianist from the age of eight, she was already well known in Europe when, in 1840, she married the composer Robert Schumann over the strenuous objection of her father.
		After Schumann's death, she became one of the great pianists of the time, touring almost constantly to support her family.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761568780/Clara_Schumann.html (122 words)

	Clara Schumann
		Clara did not begin to speak until she was 4 years old, and her parents thought that she might be deaf.
		Clara was not allowed a normal childhood, for she spent her time practicing and taking music lessons from her domineering father, being tutored in languages and music theory, and attending concerts.
		In Vienna Clara received what was, for her father, the highest possible validation of his efforts as music teacher; the Emperor honored Clara with the title of Royal and Imperial Chamber Virtuosa, a great distinction.
	www.geocities.com /Vienna/Strasse/1945/WSB/clara.html (1803 words)

	Clara Schumann and Her Songs by Kristin Norderval
		Clara did not suffer beatings, but Wieck became so invested in her successes as a measure of his own that he spoke of her concerts as "our triumphs," and he began a diary for her in which he himself wrote as though he were his daughter.
		Clara also enlisted the help of some of her piano students, but she was still the one ultimately responsible for all aspects of household life.
		Clara and Robert Schumann had lived their lives together through music, and composing had been such a primary and personal communication between them that it is not surprising that she stopped composing after his death.
	www.norderval.org /Schumann.htm (4521 words)

	Clara Wieck Schumann
		In 1819, Clara Wieck Schumann was born as the daughter of a music teacher and piano firm owner in Leipzig.
		In the same year, Clara had her first appearance at the "Leipzig Gewandhaus," and from 1829 on, she wrote her own composings, gave private concerts in Dresden, solo concerts in Leipzig, and went on many concert tours with her father.
		Clara Wieck Schumann wurde 1819 als Tochter eines Musiklehrers und Inhabers eines Klaviergeschäfts in Leipzig geboren.
	www.mscd.edu /~mdl/gerresources/frauen/cschumann.htm (321 words)

	Women of Music History, Part I - Clara Wieck Schumann
		Clara Wieck Schumann (1819-1896) was an important composer, performer, arranger and editor of music, most notably the music of her husband, Robert, but her path was well established far before she met him.
		Clara was denied the right to marry Robert because she had such a promising career, and he was unstable at best.
		Clara was now left alone with the children, but she was a very resourceful woman, and her extensive touring throughout Europe kept the family financially secure.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/music_history_retired/23207 (499 words)

	'Diese herrliche Frau,' Clara Schumann
		Clara Schumann was one of the greatest pianists of the nineteenth century and a composer of note.
		Clara was born in Leipzig on September 13, 1819, the daughter of Friedrich Wieck, an obscure piano teacher and music dealer, and Marianne Tomlitz Wieck, a talented singer and pianist.
		Clara wrote her publisher that some of the works from this time, like some romances for cello, should not be published because 'they were unworthy of him.' She made these decisions with the help of Brahms and others.
	www.worldandi.com /public/1994/october/ar2.cfm (2672 words)

	Clara Wieck Schumann (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Clara was one of the most celebrated performers of her time.
		Clara’s parents were Friedrich Wieck, a music teacher, and Marianne Tromlitz Wieck Bargiel, a soprano and student of Wieck.
		Part one describes the life of Clara Schumann, and part two throws light on several themes from her life, such as Clara Schumann as composer and editor, as student and teacher, Clara Schumann and Johannes Brahms, etc..
	departments.kings.edu /womens_history/cschumann.html (785 words)

	Clara Schumann Biography, Quick Facts, Introduction to Op. 37/12
		-Robert Schumann was born in Zwickau on June 8, 1810; died in the asylum at Endenich near Bonn on July 29, 1856.
		Though Clara's ambitions as a concert pianist and composer were hindered by the responsibilities of family life, Robert encouraged her to compose.
		Clara chose poems of devotion and passion uniquely from a woman's perspective; Robert preferred poetry full of metaphor, vivid imagery, and classical themes, but likewise revealing a man's viewpoint.
	www.geneva.edu /~dksmith/clara/bio.html (804 words)

	Out of the Shadows: Clara Schumann
		Clara Schumann's Variations on a theme by her husband, Robert, one of the last pieces she ever wrote; she gave them to him for his birthday -- the final birthday they would spend together.
		Clara Schumann found Brahms' answer cold, and it would not be the last time he inadvertently hurt her feelings.
		Clara Schumann felt that Brahms was writing his music for her, just as she thought Robert had done.
	music.minnesota.publicradio.org /features/9607_schumann/cschumann3.htm (3251 words)

	Who Was Clara Schumann?
		As a teenager, Clara fell in love with Robert Schumann, one of her father’s piano students, who was destined to become one of the most beloved composers of the19th century.
		Clara’s concert career consistently earned more money to support the family than Robert, who (especially during the first decade of their married life) was just beginning to become known as a composer and writer/editor.
		Clara also composed her own music, no easy task with her family responsibilities, practicing, and the fact that her husband required a quiet house in order that he could concentrate on his own composition.
	www.fairbornonline.com /ScottPianoStudio/whowas.html (707 words)

	Schumann, Clara Josephine (1819-1896)
		Clara contacts to the young Johannes, whom she ghad met in 1853, became closer and he was probably in love with her (later he had his eye on her daughter Julie but Brahms was very unlucky in love).
		Clara Schumann painted by Franz von Lenbach when she was nearly 60 years old.
		The grave of Robert and Clara Schumann at the Alter Friedhof, Bonn.
	www.xs4all.nl /~androom/biography/p050660.htm (492 words)

	Schumann Clara Josephine - Search Results - MSN Encarta (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Schumann Clara Josephine - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Schumann, Clara Josephine (1819-1896), German pianist and composer, born Clara Wieck in Leipzig, and trained by her father, Friedrich Wieck.
		Schumann was born on June 8, 1810, in Zwickau, Saxony, and educated at the universities of Leipzig and Heidelberg.
	uk.encarta.msn.com /Schumann_Clara_Josephine.html (115 words)

	John Sichel's Program Notes
		Clara Schumann was the ‘other half’ of the most famous husband-and-wife one-two punch in music history.
		There certainly is an element of truth to this view, as Clara did give up on, or cut back on her composition after her marriage, and yet she did continue her career as a top-rate concert pianist and chamber musician-- while mothering eight children.
		Clara, and Mendelssohn, on the other hand, represented a retrenchment of sorts, not a rejection of romantic aesthetics, but an attempt to preserve, assimilate and use as models, the works of the classical greats.
	www.westfieldnj.com /arbormusic/claraschu.html (707 words)

	Clara Wieck Schumann - Bibliography
		Comprehensive and detailed biography of Clara Schumann based on the diaries of Clara and Robert Schumann and on the biography of their daughter Eugenie (with citations).
		Biography of Clara Schumann with emphasis on her musical development, illustrated with examples of musical notations.
		Part one describes the life of Clara Schumann, and part two throws light on several themes from her life (e.g., Clara Schumann as composer and editor, Clara Schumann as student and teacher, Clara Schumann and Johannes Brahms, etc.).
	www.scils.rutgers.edu /~eversr/biblio.html (462 words)

	SCHUMANN ~ NOTES Page ~ aMUSIClassical Directory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		He told her the cycle of youthful miniatures were peaceful, tender and happy...as he expected his future with her to be.
		Schumann also wrote his 'Album for the Young' a large group of simple piano pieces for young people to play.
		The date of composition of Robert Schumann's 'Concerto in a, for Piano and Orch', is given as 1845, but the first MMT of this work was actually written four years earlier as an independent composition for piano and orchestra.
	www.angelfire.com /biz/musiclassical/schumann.html (496 words)

	Clara Schumann, Composer
		Clara was a musician from an early age, making her first musical appearance at age 9 and performing her first piano recital at age 11.
		Robert asked Clara to marry him in 1837, but Clara's parents objected to the marriage since Clara was 18 years old and Robert was 9 years older than her.
		Throughout her life, Clara was well-known as a piano soloist, gaining fame for her teachnical proficiencies, sensitive interpretations of musical works and her ability to express the composer's intent in the music.
	www.dsokids.com /2001/dso.asp?PageID=448 (320 words)

	Schumann Clara Wieck
		lara Wieck Schumann was born in Leipzig on 13 September 1819 and she died in Frankfurt on 20 May 1896.
		Clara's parents were Friedrich Wieck (1785-1873), a music teacher, and Marianne Tromlitz Wieck Bargiel (1797-1872), a soprano and student of Wieck; Clara's father had resolved before her birth that she would be a great musician and child prodigy.
		Clara moved to Berlin in 1857, where she performed, taught, and edited Robert's works and letters.
	www.maurice-abravanel.com /schumann_clara_wieck.html (566 words)

	Robert Schumann (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Schumann, as a pianist composer, made the piano partake fully in the expression of emotion in such songs, often giving it the most telling music when the voice had finished.
		In 1841, however, Schumann turned to orchestral music: he wrote symphonies and a beautiful, poetic piece for piano and orchestra for Clara that he later reworked as the first movement of his Piano Concerto.
		In 1854 he began to suffer hallucinations; he attempted suicide (he had always dreaded the possibility of madness) and entered an asylum, where he died in 1856, almost certainly of the effects of syphilis, cared for at the end by Clara and the young Brahms.
	w3.rz-berlin.mpg.de /cmp/schumann_r.html (566 words)

	Clara Schumann
		Clara’s strength to pull herself and her family through the hard times in her life is a good lesson for anyone.
		Clara married her musician friend, Robert Schumann, who was a very hardworking, dedicated man. She had eight kids of her own and made sure that they had a good childhood.
		Clara had to face many tragic incidents in her life, such as the death of two children, her husband being sent to a mental hospital, and eventually becoming a widow at age thirty-six.
	www.stonesoup.com /br2/2000/ClaraSchumann.html (759 words)

	CLARA SCHUMANN: PIANO VIRTUOSO by Susanna Reich at Embracing the Child
		Clara Weick Schumann made her professional debut in her native city of Leipzig, Germany at the age of nine and was counted among the great musicians of the 19th century at a time when few women had public lives.
		CLARA SCHUMANN: PIANO VIRTUOSO captures the essence of this remarkable and resilient woman.
		The nineteenth century pianist and composer Clara Schumann grew up surrounded by music and gave her first public performance when she was only nine years old.
	www.embracingthechild.org /Areich.html (975 words)

	Great Masters: Robert and Clara Schumann and Shostakovich-Their Lives and Music (Detailed Description)
		Clara, the only woman who is a subject of the Great Masters series, was one of the most famous pianists and acclaimed touring musicians in Europe at a time when women of her class were rarely encouraged to pursue careers outside the home.
		Clara first met her future husband when he was 18 and she was only 9.
		And Clara was not only the main breadwinner of a growing family, but the wife of an emotionally unstable man who alternated between manic bouts of awesome creativity (he once wrote an entire symphony in four days) and terrifying fits of depression, exacerbating the worsening effects of the syphilis that would eventually kill him.
	www.teach12.com /ttc/Assets/courseDescriptions/7755.asp (2594 words)

	Women of Note - Clara Schumann
		Clara wrote in her diary in 1846 "There is nothing like the satisfaction of composing something oneself and hearing it afterwards." Let's hope she felt that about her Piano Trio of the same year, as some consider it her greatest achievement.
		Clara wanted to offer the famous violinist Joseph Joachim a copy, fresh from the press as a Christmas present, but was thwarted by the publishers delay.
		This is a superb biography telling the whole remarkable story of Clara's life, including details of her glorious career, her strange (and later estranged) relationship with her father, the marriage to Robert, her friendship with Brahms and other musical contemporaries, plus a chapter about Clara as composer and editor.
	www.ambache.co.uk /wSchumann.htm (1304 words)

	The Schumann Paintings (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Inspired by E.T.A. Hoffman’s mad fictional musician Kappelmeister Kreisler, Schumann’s “Kreisleriana” was one of many musical works written at the urging of the inner voices that alternatively plagued and blessed him throughout much of his life.
		Though sensitive and artistic, Clara had a rather conservative and disciplined mind -- I believe that this protected her during these sessions, while Robert, his spiritual sentinels incapacitated by his psychological illness, was vulnerable to possession by any invisible entity the two of them may have invoked.
		Robert Schumann’s afflictions are depicted by his absence -- the image I most often use is of Clara alone, playing a variety of magical keyboard instruments, all of them capable of invoking or banishing these spirits.
	www.cynthialarge.com /schumann/schumannessay.html (1128 words)

	Schumann, Clara (1819-1896) Classical Compositions and Clara Schumann (1819-1896) classical music sheets. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The daughter of Friedrich Wieck, her teacher and mentor until her marriage with Robert Schumann, Clara Schumann had embarked on a successful career as a pianist before her liaison with Schumann, leading to their marriage in 1840.
		Clara Schumann wrote a small number of works for orchestra and instrumental ensemble.
		The greater part of Clara Schumann’s music for piano was written before her marriage.
	www.naxos.com /composerinfo/939.htm (211 words)

	Johannes Brahms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		He studied the piano from the age of seven and theory and composition (with Eduard Marxsen) from 13, gaining experience as an arranger for his father's light orchestra while absorbing the popular alla zingarese style associated with Hungarian folk music.
		Brahms's artistic kinship with Robert Schumann and his profound romantic passion (later mellowing to veneration) for Clara Schumann, 14 years his elder, never left him.
		Soon after Clara Schumann's death in 1896 he died from cancer, aged 63, and was buried in Vienna.
	w3.rz-berlin.mpg.de /cmp/brahms.html (882 words)

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