Despite great commitment from the mezzo-soprano, the four string players merged into corporate facelessness in this performance of Brahms and Schumann The Schumann Quartet acquired a new viola player ...

Take a look at Schumann’s 78-key piano, a new invention at the time, and then listen to Dr. Richard Kogan, violinist Scott Yoo and more perform Schumann’s piano quintet. How Other Composers Changed ...

Jane Jones introduces the concerto that was saved for posterity by a virtuoso wife! One of the most talked about partnerships in classical music must be that between Robert Schumann and Clara Wieck, ...

Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. Schumann had always lived close to the edge. The psychiatrist Peter Ostwald has noted that even as a young teen, ...

At the dawn of the Romantic era, Schumann’s rich musical imagination takes flight in enchanting works for solo piano. Schumann’s first 23 opus numbers are all for piano and represent a unique phase in ...

“The music saved our lives,” said Coco Schumann of the songs he credited with keeping him alive through the Holocaust. The jazz musician was born Heinz Jakob Schumann in Weimar Berlin. His father ...

In the currency of creativity, madness has long been regarded as the flip-side of the genius coin. The greatest minds could also be the most unstable. And to the 19th century, no figure exemplified ...