Robert Schumann
Robert Schumann was a German composer of the Romantic era, known for piano works, art songs, and symphonies.
His music is characterized by literary imagination and emotional intensity.
Married to pianist Clara Schumann, he struggled with mental illness and died in an asylum at forty-six.
Schumann's "Kinderszenen" captures childhood wonder.
Extended composition for orchestra
- liederArchaic word for songs
- concertoSolo-and-orchestra composition
- sonataMulti-movement instrumental composition
- fugueContrapuntal musical form
cantata · composition · score · opus · Carnaval · orchestration · counterpoint · motif
Supremely accomplished performer
- keyboardArray of input keys
- recitalSolo musical performance
- techniqueSkilled way of performing
- fortepianoEarly hammer-action keyboard
touch · fingering · legato · staccato · dynamics · pedaling · arpeggio · octaves
Formal union between partners
- loveIntense fond attachment
- courtshipSeeking another's romantic favor
- lettersAlphabetic characters or mail
- devotionDeep, loyal commitment
partnership · muse · separation · children · duets · collaboration · support · correspondence
Shelter from persecution
- breakdownFailure or decomposition
- RhineMajor Central European waterway
- depressionProlonged low state
- hallucinationsPerceptions without external cause
madness · tragedy · decline · suffering · institutionalization · melancholia · anguish · torment
Emotion-centered artistic movement
- nineteenth-centuryThe years 1801-1900
- LeipzigMajor Saxon metropolis
- DüsseldorfNorth Rhine-Westphalia's capital
- BrahmsRomantic German composer
Mendelssohn · Liszt · Chopin · Berlioz · Wagner · literary · poetic · programmatic
symphony
Extended composition for orchestra
- liederArchaic word for songs
- concertoSolo-and-orchestra composition
- sonataMulti-movement instrumental composition
fugue · cantata · composition · score · opus · Carnaval · orchestration · counterpoint · motif · tonality
virtuoso
Supremely accomplished performer
fortepiano · touch · fingering · legato · staccato · dynamics · pedaling · arpeggio · octaves · interpretation
marriage
Formal union between partners
- loveIntense fond attachment
- courtshipSeeking another's romantic favor
- lettersAlphabetic characters or mail
devotion · partnership · muse · separation · children · duets · collaboration · support · correspondence · romance
asylum
Shelter from persecution
- breakdownFailure or decomposition
- RhineMajor Central European waterway
- depressionProlonged low state
hallucinations · madness · tragedy · decline · suffering · institutionalization · melancholia · anguish · torment · syphilis
Romanticism
Emotion-centered artistic movement
- nineteenth-centuryThe years 1801-1900
- LeipzigMajor Saxon metropolis
- DüsseldorfNorth Rhine-Westphalia's capital
Brahms · Mendelssohn · Liszt · Chopin · Berlioz · Wagner · literary · poetic · programmatic · expressive
- Tortured Geniustortured genius, Van Gogh, Vincent van Gogh, genius, madness
- LiederPrometheus, Lorelei, Ave Maria, Lenore
Robert SchumannIgor Stravinsky
neoclassicism · Joseph Haydn · Johann Sebastian Bach · formalism · Johannes Brahms
Robert SchumannRichard Wagner
Giuseppe Verdi · Giacomo Puccini · Franz Liszt · Joseph Haydn · George Frideric Handel