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	Robert Schumann - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		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.
		On the October 3, 1835 Schumann met Mendelssohn at Wieck's house in Leipzig, and his appreciation of his great contemporary was shown with the same generous freedom that distinguished him in all his relations to other musicians, and which later enabled him to recognize the genius of Brahms when he was still obscure.
		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.
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	ROBERT ALEXANDER SCHUMANN - LoveToKnow Article on ROBERT ALEXANDER SCHUMANN
		The question seemed to be set at rest by Schumanns expressed intention to study law, but both at Leipzig and at Heidelberg, whither he went in 1829, he neglected the law for the philosophers, and thOughto use his own words but Natures pupil pure and simple began composing songs.
		In the Carnaval Schumann went farther than in Papillons, for in it he himself conceived the story of which it was the musical illustration.
		In his lifetime the sole tokens of honor bestowed upon Schumann were the degree of Doctor by the University of Jena In 1840, and in 1843 a professorship in the Conservatorium of Leipzig.
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	Robert Schumann (1810-1856)
		Robert Schumann was born in Zwickau, Germany on June 8, 1810 as the son of a bookseller, Friedrich August Schumann.
		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.
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	Biography: Robert Alexander Schumann
		On June 8, 1810, Robert Schumann was born in Zwickau, Saxony to August Schumann, a bookseller, and Johanna Schumann.
		Robert was the youngest of five children, and partially because of this, he was spoiled and known as "handsome child." At the age of six, Robert was sent to Archdeacon Döhner’s school, which was similar to a grammar-school.
		Schumann was the journal’s editor and leading writer for ten years, and his articles in the journal evidenced his talent and perceptiveness as a musical critic.
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	SCHUMANN (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Robert Alexander Schumann (1810 - 1856) was a German composer, who was a principal figure of the early romantic movement in 19th-century music.
		Schumann was born on the 8th of June 1810, in Zwickau, Saxony, and educated at the universities of Leipzig and Heidelberg.
		Schumann concentrated on the psychological subtleties of a poem and in his songs gave to the piano accompaniment an equal role in expressing the mood and meaning of a poem.
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	Schumann, Robert Alexander on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Schumann's brilliant compositions for piano, including Papillons, Die Davidsbündlertänze, Carnaval, Fantasiestücke, Études symphoniques, Kinderszenen, and Kreisleriana, occupied him until 1840, when he began to write songs and orchestral music.
		His wife, Clara Josephine (Wieck) Schumann, 1819-96, was one of the outstanding pianists of her time.
		She was noted for the intellectual brilliance and sensitivity of her playing, and was an outstanding interpreter of Schumann's and Brahms's works.
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	Robert and Clara Schumann - a biography
		Robert Alexander Schumann was born in 1810 in Zwickau, Saxony.
		Robert's goal was to become a concert pianist and this, of course, required a vigorous practice regime.
		Robert wrote "Carnival" for her, a cyclic piece in which the same theme recurred in all the movements.
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	PlanetPapers - Robert Schumann
		Robert Alexander Schumann was born in the small riverside town of Zwickau, Saxony, in 1810.The youngest of five children, Robert Schumann was brought up in comfortable, middle-class respectability.
		Schumann did however venture to criticise Mendelssohn's use of the baton; he believed that an orchestra should function as a "republic" and that ridgity should be avoided.
		Schumann was buried at seven o'clock on the morning of 31 July 1856 in Bonn.
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	Robert Schumann
		In the Autobiography of Moscheles there are frequent references t o meetings with Schumann at the house of the Wiecks, and Clara’s playing is spoken of as "superb, and void of all affectation." It was lucky for Schumann that Clara Wieck was as much in love with him as he was with her.
		Robert Schumann and Clara Wieck are not only the ideal lovers of musical history, but their story is worthy of a high place in the love literature of the world.
		Robert Schumann was of middling stature, almost tall, and slightly corpulent, his bearing, while in health, was haughty, distinguished, dignified, and calm; his gait slow, soft, and a little slovenly.
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	Schumann, Robert Alexander Music Web Links (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Robert Schumann - Biographical essay linked to a creative writing lesson based on his death and the relationship of his widow Clara Wieck Schumann and their friend Johannes Brahms.
		Robert Schumann: His Life, His Music and His Words - Information about the composer's life as well as his works, including sound files and pictures.
		Robert Alexander Schumann (1810-1856) - His life and works in essay form with MIDI audio, RM audio files recorded by Professor Guy Jonson, and German text and English translation of portions of one of his songs.
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	SCHUMANN
		Schumann, Robert Alexander, German composer, a principal figure of the early romantic movement in 19th-century music.
		Schumann was born on June 8, 1810, in Zwickau, Saxony, and educated at the universities of Leipzig and Heidelberg.
		In fact all Schumann's concertos are in the minor key despite the fact that he once observed that Four-fifths of the latest concertos are in the minor.
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	•• Biography of Robert Schumann - PianoParadise••
		Robert Alexander Schumann (June 8, 1810 - July 29, 1856) was a German musical composer and pianist of the Romantic period of Classical music.
		Schumann was born on the 8th of June 1810 in Zwickau in Saxony.
		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.
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	Major Works and Style: Robert Alexander Schumann
		Robert Schumann revised an earlier work for Düsseldorf in 1852 to produce Symphony No. 4 in D minor (Opus 120) ("Schumann, Robert").
		The style of Schumann was such that the piano played as important a role as the lyrics in the expression of emotion.
		Two other important elements of Schumann’s style are the use of solid, massive, resonant chords and the incorporation of strong dissonances, both of which are present in the previously mentioned works (Schauffler 493-494).
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	Robert Schumann Sheet Music
		Schumann is said to have wept the entire night he learned of Schubert's death.
		Schumann was ruled by his romantic heart, and was not pleased with Wieck's lack of support.
		Schumann's work was to benefit greatly from this relationship (they had 8 children), and he produced around 150 songs, most of them dealing with love, in the first year of his marriage.
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	Schumann R more
		Robert Schumann was a pianist at six, a composer at seven, and within a few years we find the child, already famous as an extemporizer, taking part in public performance where he had to stand up at the piano in order to reach the keys.
		Schumann was puzzled at the strange personality and he wrote to Mendelssohn: "Wagner is undoubtedly a clever fellow, full of crazy ideas and bold to a degree.
		Robert was so busy composing he gave Clara; further handicapped by the housework for which she was untrained, very little time for practice.
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	ROBERT SCHUMANN FACTS AND INFORMATION (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Robert Schumann (June_8, 1810 – July_29, 1856) was a German composer and pianist.
		To bestow praise on Frederic_Chopin and Hector_Berlioz in those days was to court the charge of eccentricity in taste, yet the genius of both these masters was appreciated and openly proclaimed in the new journal.
		She and her good friend, Johannes_Brahms destroyed many of Schumann's later works that they thought to be tainted by his madness.
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	AllRefer.com - Robert Alexander Schumann (Music: History, Composers, And Performers, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Robert Alexander Schumann[shOO´mAn] Pronunciation Key, 1810–56, German composer.
		Both as a composer and as a highly articulate music critic he was a leader of the romantic movement.
		Schumann's brilliant compositions for piano, including Papillons, Die DavidsbUndlertAnze, Carnaval, FantasiestUcke, Etudes symphoniques, Kinderszenen, and Kreisleriana, occupied him until 1840, when he began to write songs and orchestral music.
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	Great Performances . Educational Resources . Composer Biographies . Robert Schumann \| PBS
		In 1834 Schumann founded a music journal, the "Neue Zeitschrift für Musik"; he was its editor and leading writer for ten years.
		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.
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	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.
		Yet for all Schumann's caprice and fantasy, he was one of the purist musicians with innate sense of classical balance and proportion.
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	Robert Alexander Schumann 1810-1856
		The ten years of Schumann's career as symphonist were from 1841 to 1851; 184o was the year of his marriage to Clara Wieck, a happiness which colored all his art.
		Lovers of Schumann have special treasures, and surely a particular place must be given to the dreamily passionate song that makes the burden of the first movement.
		Schumann wished this symphony to be played without breaks between the movements, all of which are associated by means of recurring themes.
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	Featured Composer ROBERT SCHUMANN
		As a composer and music critic, Robert Schumann (1810-1856) considered himself the heir to the boldly original creative tradition of Beethoven and Schubert.
		Robert Alexander Schumann was born in 1810 in Zwickau.
		These characters were members of Schumann's fictitious "Band of David" (along with Mozart, Chopin, Paganini, and Berlioz among others) - an artistic brotherhood sworn to battle against the Philistines, the purveyors of all that was antiquated, mediocre, and shallow in contemporary music and culture.
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	Robert Schumann biography - 8notes.com
		Robert Alexander Schumann (June 8, 1810 — July 29, 1856) was a German composer and pianist in the Romantic period of Classical music.
		Robert Schumann: Piano Quartet, Opus 47 Composed by Robert Schumann (1810-1856), edited by Alfred Dorffel.
		Robert Schumann: Childhood Scenes Composed by Robert Schumann (1810-1856).
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	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.
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	Robert Alexander Schumann Biography / Biography of Robert Alexander Schumann Biography Biography
		The music of the German composer and critic Robert Alexander Schumann (1810-1856) made a significant impact on the burgeoning romantic movement in its rhythmic novelty and harmonic and lyrical expressiveness.
		Robert Schumann created no intrinsically new forms, but he infused them with a personal subjectivity and emotional intensity that transformed an inherited classical tradition into the quintessence of romantic experience.
		Schumann was born at Zwickau on June 8, 1810, the youngest of the five children of Friedrich Schumann, a boo.....
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		Music of Desire by Robert Schumann: Kreisleriana - Psychological analysis of the work with some spiritual overtones, examining his then-secret desire to marry Clara, hidden themes and ciphers, and Vladimir Horowitz's 1969 recording.
		Robert Schumann - An overview of his life and works of Robert Schumann, his musical style and influences, and wife Clara.
		Schumann, Robert (1810-1856) - Brief biography, caricature, summaries of orchestral, chamber, choral and vocal, and piano music, and recommended Naxos recordings.
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	Robert Schumann Mental Illness (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Robert was the youngest of five children, and partially because of this,...
		Nar: Robert Schumann had brought the two of them together, and his illness pulled them closer...
		Robert Schumann, a German composer, was also an important music critic.
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