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	Robert Schumann (1810-1856)
		Schumann's father made attempts to retain Carl Maria von Weber as a composition teacher for his talented son, but these efforts were fruitless, owing to the death of both August Schumann and Weber in 1826.
		Schumann encapsulates this style in the graceful and curvaceous roulades that he employs amid the rippling momentum of continuous 16th notes, and typical of the composer's style, the piece abounds in fragmentary repetitions.
		Schumann, as a pianist-composer, made the piano partake fully in the expression of emotion in his song cycles, often giving the piano the most telling music when the voice had finished.
	www.carolinaclassical.com /schumann (2524 words)

	Piano Quintet (Schumann) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Piano Quintet by Robert Schumann was written in 1842.
		Like most piano quintets, it is written for piano and string quartet (two violins, viola and cello).
		Westrup, J. ‘The Sketch for Schumann's Piano Quintet op.44’, Convivium musicorum: Festschrift Wolfgang Boetticher.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Piano_Quintet_(Schumann) (277 words)

	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.
		Schumann's Piano Quintet is highly recommended for the breadth and complexity of its emotions.
	www.mfiles.co.uk /composers/robert-schumann.htm (749 words)

	Quintet - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In classical instrumental music, any additional instrument (such as a piano, clarinet, oboe, etc.) joined to the usual string quartet (two violins, a viola, and a cello), gives the resulting ensemble its name, such as "piano quintet", "clarinet quintet", etc. A piece of music written for such a group is similarly named.
		In some modern bands there are quintets formed from the same family of instruments with various voices, as an all brass ensemble, or all saxophones, in soprano, alto, baritone, and bass, and sometimes double bass.
		Schubert: piano quintet in A major, D.667 (1819), popularely known as the 'Trout Quintet', based on his Lied "Die Forelle" ("the trout"); this piece in part inspired future efforts in the composition of piano quintets, especially those of Schumann and Dvorak.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Quintet (497 words)

	Shostakovich and Schumann
		Dedicated to Clara Schumann, his piano-virtuoso wife, it was the first time a composer had added the voice of the piano to a string quartet in a brilliant and demanding part.
		Though Schumann’s Piano Quintet was not the first work to pair the piano with a string ensemble, the work does appear to be the first to combine the piano with the traditional string quartet of two violins, viola and cello.
		Schumann’s Piano Quintet received its public premiere on January 8, 1843 at the Leipzig Gewandhaus with Clara at the keyboard and the four strings players drawn from the Gewandhaus Orchestra.
	www.knoxvillesymphony.com /ShostakovichandSchumann.htm (1114 words)

	•• Biography of Robert Schumann - PianoParadise••
		Schumann's father was a publisher, and it was in the cultivation of literature quite as much as in that of music that his boyhood was spent.
		Schumann's editorial duties, which kept him closely occupied during the summer of 1834, were interrupted by his relations with Ernestine von Fricken, a girl of sixteen, to whom he became engaged.
		Schumann's biographers represent him as caught in a tempest of song, the sweetness, the doubt and the despair of which are all to be attributed to varying emotions aroused by his love for Clara.
	www.pianoparadise.com /schumann.html (2601 words)

	Out of the Shadows: Clara Schumann
		Schumann mostly sat in a corner next to the piano...his head bowed down, hair hanging in his face, and with a very thoughtful expression, as if he were whistling to himself.
		Schumann invited their musician friends to come and hear music that Clara wrote, such as her Piano Trio in G minor.
		Schumann had made his way to a bridge, jumped into the Rhine river, and was rescued by two fishermen, who carried the composer back to his home.
	music.minnesota.publicradio.org /features/9607_schumann/cschumann2.htm (3399 words)

	Essentials of Music - Composers
		Schumann was one of the driving forces of the young Romantic movement in Germany.
		Like many in his generation, Robert Schumann did not seem destined to become a composer, let alone one who would be so influential in the development of a new style.
		These are pseudonyms that Schumann wrote under in his journal, and each depicts an aspect of his personality, the first being more flamboyant and the second more controlled.
	www.essentialsofmusic.com /composer/schumann_r.html (637 words)

	Amazon.ca: Pno Qnt/Pno Qrt: Music: Robert Schumann,Eugene Drucker,Lawrence Dutton,Emerson String Quartet,David ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		Quintet For Piano, 2 Violins, Viola And Cello In E Flat Major, Op.
		Schumann's Piano Quintet is one of the world's (and my) favorite pieces of chamber music.
		The quintet is not nearly as profound as Brahms' masterpiece, but is nonetheless tuneful and enduringly fresh.
	www.amazon.ca /Pno-Qnt-Qrt-Robert-Schumann/dp/B000001GP3 (657 words)

	Schumann Piano Concerto, Quintet, Pires Abbado : Classical CD Reviews-June 2000 Music on the Web(UK) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		It was the Piano Quintet of 1843 which caught my attention in the release list, and it is the more compelling of these performances.
		The quintet was recorded at Snape Maltings (a favoured recording venue) in October 1999, with Dumay, Capuçon, Caussé and Wang.
		The quintet was written for Clara, who premiered it and it has a lengthy funeral march for the second movement.
	www.musicweb.uk.net /classrev/2000/july00/schumannpc.htm (370 words)

	Robert Schumann
		When Schumann had just finished [the piano quintet] Liszt unexpectedly came to Leipzig and insisted on hearing it performed the same night.
		The Quintet was dedicated to his beloved wife, piano virtuoso Clara Schumann, who made it a staple of her repertoire.
		Schumann’s conception of what the addition of a piano to a classical string quartet should be is an entirely logical one.
	www.fuguemasters.com /schumann.html (1348 words)

	schumann (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		While the strings have a perfect cadence there, the piano creates a Dominant minor 9th which pulls the music back to B flat for bar 79.
		Whilst rigid periodic phrasing is typical of Schumann, he disguises it by dovetailing or overlapping some phrases.
		The music is clearly written for the kind of piano found in the Romantic period which, in essence, would have resembled a modern piano capable of a wide range of expression and a full bodied tone.
	www.duckmusic.free-online.co.uk /alevel/schumann.htm (1410 words)

	Schumann, Robert (1810 - 1856)
		The son of a bookseller, publisher and writer, Robert Schumann showed early abilities in both music and literature, the second facility used in his later writing on musical subjects.
		After brief study at university, he was allowed by his widowed mother and guardian to undertake serious study of the piano with Friedrich Wieck, whose favourite daughter Clara was later to become Schumann's wife.
		His ambitions as a pianist were thwarted by a weakness in the fingers of one hand, but the 1830s nevertheless brought a number of compositions for the instrument.
	www.smusic.com /naxos/schumann/schumann.htm (383 words)

	Brentano String Quartet Mitsuko Uchida
		But the piano quintet was an entirely new medium, created singleâ‘handedly by Schumann with this, his one contribution to itâ”and his most popular work of chamber music.
		Clearly the combination of piano and string quartet had its attractions, for he was soon followed by other composers in many countries: Brahms and Reger in Germany, DvoÃ¸Ã¡k in Bohemia, Franck and DâIndy in France, Chadwick, Foote, Beach, and Farwell in America, Elgar in England, and Shostakovich in Russia, to name only a few.
		He was, of course, completely at home with the piano, his own instrument, but he also gave the string parts beautiful and expressive things to do, though at times they are almost symphonic in character (and sometimes, it must be admitted, he simply lets the piano take over).
	www.carnegiehall.org /article/box_office/events/evt_7020_pf.html (3056 words)

	CLASSICAL MUSIC ARCHIVES: Schumann Biography
		Hers was a strict classical training, and in later years she convinced Schumann that if he aspired to the loftiest goals, he must compose grand sonatas and symphonies in addition to the suites of fantastic dances, miniatures and poetic rhapsodies that were his natural metier.
		Schumann was an idealistic champion for the purity and poetry of the new romantic spirit, and an enemy of the idle virtuousity and note spinning that were competing for the attention of the rising middle class audience.
		Opuses 1 through 28 are all for piano, and in addition to the pieces already named, include Kreisleriana, Fantasiestucke, the glorious C major Fantasy and the often overlooked Humoreske.
	www.classicalarchives.com /bios/schumann_bio.html (1084 words)

	Menahem Pressler :: Media and Recordings
		Schubert's two piano trios are the products of his last years when, knowing that he was ill and dying, he still managed to produce dozens of songs and chamber music masterpieces, as well as pursue counterpoint studies and make plans for further orchestral and stage works.
		Both of the piano trios are typically large works, generously stuffed with first-rate tunes, some of which you may recognize without knowing exactly where they came from.
		In their hands the quintet, one of Schumann's most inspired creations, receives an especially polished and poised performance, with a lovely dovetailing of voices.
	www.menahempressler.org /recording.html (477 words)

	Notes 2005: Schumann: Craftsbury Chamber Players
		If 1840 was Schumann's "song year" and 1841 his "symphonic year," then surely 1842 was his "chamber music year." To console himself while his wife Clara was on a concert tour of Europe early that year, Robert turned to the study of counterpoint and the chamber works of Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven.
		Being a pianist, Schumann conceived these works almost as extensions of his solo piano music, with the strings often united either in opposition to, or in imitation of, the keyboard.
		Unison staccato in the piano and cello opens the Scherzo, which boasts two contrasting trios, a structural trait common to many of Schumann's Scherzi.
	www.craftsburychamberplayers.org /notes/schumann2005.html (423 words)

	The Joachim Raff Society - Piano Quintet
		One such chamber master work is Raff's Piano Quintet in a op.107- called by him a "Grand Quintuor" to emphasise the symphonic scale of the work.
		Although Raff wrote a Fantasy for piano and string quartet, the Piano Quintet shares with the Cello Sonata the distinction of being the sole example of its genre in Raff's chamber output.
		On hearing the completed Quintet, Raff's great friend the conductor and pianist Hans von Bülow wrote to him: "I cannot but admit that your quintet is your best, and the most remarkable work in the field of chamber music since Beethoven".
	www.raff.org /quintet.htm (714 words)

	Sheet Music Plus - Johannes Brahms: Klavier Quintett (Piano Quintet), Op. 24 in F Minor
		Robert Schumann: Piano Quintet For violin i, violin ii, viola...
		Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Piano Quartets (2) For violin, viola, cello and piano...
		Quintet In D Minor, Opus 89 For 2 Violins, Viola, Cello and Piano By Gabriel Faure...
	www.sheetmusicplus.com /a/item.html?item=979018&id=79590 (196 words)

	Sheet Music Plus - Robert Schumann: Piano Quintet
		Robert Schumann: Piano Quartet, Opus 47 For violin, viola, cello and piano...
		Antonin Dvorak: Quintet in A major, Opus 81 For 2 violins, viola, cello and piano...
		Franz Schubert: Forellen (Trout) Quintet For violin, viola, cello, bass and...
	www.sheetmusicplus.com /a/item.html?id=77965&item=970374 (176 words)

	Amazon.com: Schubert: Piano Quintet ("The Trout"); Schumann: Piano Quintet, Op. 44: Music: Leslie Parnas,Franz ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		Amazon.com: Schubert: Piano Quintet ("The Trout"); Schumann: Piano Quintet, Op.
		Schubert: Piano Quintet ("The Trout"); Schumann: Piano Quintet, Op.
		However the greatest moment of all is the very start, Schumann over the moon with gladness and relief at returning to his beloved piano after a spell elsewhere with the songs.
	www.amazon.com /Schubert-Piano-Quintet-Trout-Schumann/dp/B0000AH3EP (1822 words)

	PACM014: Piano Quintet in E flat, Op.44 - Schumann
		Schumann (1810-1856) published no chamber music at all prior to 1842, when a sudden outpouring saw all three String Quartets, a Piano Quartet, the Fantasiestüke for String Trio, and this, his only Piano Quintet, all suddenly spring as if from nowhere.
		Of all of his chamber music, the Piano Quintet is perhaps the finest, and shows the composer in brilliant, extrovert mood - fluent, melodic and truly captivating.
		It is also the first Piano Quintet of real greatness - the form was ignored by Beethoven and Haydn, whilst the closest Mozart came to it was in his two piano quartets.
	www.pristineaudiodirect.com /LargeWorks/Chamber/PACM014.php (684 words)

	Schumann Robert English
		After briefly moving to Heidelberg, Schumann returned to Leipzig and prepared to devote his talents, which he considered equal as a poet and musician, to music, publishing his Opus 1, the Abegg Variations soon after.
		hroughout his career, Schumann seems to have concentrated on one particular genre at a time and from 1833-39, the emphasis was on piano music, giving him a certain amount of commercial success.
		Schumann's ill-health, it transpires, was probably due to the Syphilis that he had contracted in 1832.
	www.maurice-abravanel.com /schumann_robert_english.html (594 words)

	The Music Chamber - Robert Schumann
		Schumann's Sonata in f minor is known as his heart's cry for her.
		Schumann wrote three string quartets in 1842, a fertile period that saw also the composition of the Piano Quintet in Eb, op.44 and a Piano Quartet in Eb, op.44.
		Other important chamber music by Schumann includes three piano trios, three violin sonatas and a number of shorter character-pieces that include the Märchenbilder for viola and piano, collections of his piano solos.
	library.thinkquest.org /27110/noframes/composers/schumann.html (399 words)

	Clara Wieck Schumann
		Clara was the wife of Robert Schumann, and one of the most celebrated performers of the century.
		It was he who encouraged her in performance and composition, and at an early age she made a name for herself as a concert pianist.
		Much of her music was written to be performed by her (piano concertos and pieces for solo piano), but she also wrote a number of songs and a well-respected trio (Opus 17).
	www.wwnorton.com /classical/composers/cschumann.htm (450 words)

	Floridian: Audio files
		MARTHA ARGERICH; SCHUMANN: PIANO QUINTET; ANDANTE AND VARIATIONS (EMI CLASSICS) -- Few composers have enriched the chamber music repertoire as significantly as Robert Schumann, whose evergreen piano quintet remains as popular today as it was a century ago.
		In the lyrical Quintet, her jewel-like sound and liquid phrasing prove ideally suited to the larger, integral task of weaving among the soaring lines and musical precipices of the string players.
		Much the same can be said of her ardent performance of the Fantasiestucke for cello and piano.
	www.sptimes.com /2002/10/06/news_pf/Floridian/Audio_files.shtml (604 words)

	Robert Schumann biography
		The overture to Schumann's only completed opera, Genoveva, unsuccessful in the theatre, is part of concert-hall repertoire, with an overture to Byron's Manfred, again first intended for the theatre.
		Schumann wrote three string quartets in 1842, a fertile period that saw also the composition of the Piano Quintet and a Piano Quartet.
		Other important chamber music by Schumann includes three piano trios, three violin sonatas and a number of shorter character-pieces that include the Märchenbilder for viola and piano, collections of Phantasiestücke with alternative instrumentation and the cello and piano Fünf Stücke im Volkston, with other short pieces generally suggesting a literary or otherwise extra-musical programme.
	www.kunstderfuge.com /bios/schumann.html (869 words)

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