Robert Schumann

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Born: 8 June 1810

Died: 29 July 1856

Biography

Robert Schumann, sometimes given as Robert Alexander Schumann, was a German composer, aesthete and influential music critic. He is one of the most famous Romantic composers of the 19th century.

He had hoped to pursue a career as a virtuoso pianist, having been assured by his teacher Friedrich Wieck that he could become the finest pianist in Europe after only a few years of study with him. However, a hand injury prevented those hopes from being realized, and he decided to focus his musical energies on composition. His published compositions were, until 1840, all for the piano; he later composed works for piano and orchestra, many lieder, four symphonies, an opera, and other orchestral, choral and chamber works. His writings about music appeared mostly in Die neue Zeitschrift für Musik ("The New Journal for Music"), a Leipzig-based publication that he jointly founded.

In 1840, after a long and acrimonious legal battle with her father, he married pianist Clara Wieck, a considerable figure of the Romantic period in her own right. For the last two years of his life, after an attempted suicide, Schumann was confined to a mental institution.

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List of choral works

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• All nächtlich im Traume   (  )
• Am leuchtenden Sommermorgen   (  )
• An die Sterne, Op. 141, No. 1   (   Sibelius 2 )
• Aus den östlichen Rosen   (  )
• Bänkelsänger Willie   (   Finale 2001 )
• Der Schmidt, Op. 145, No. 1   (   )
• Der träumende See   (  )
• Der traurige Jäger, Op. 75, No. 3   (   Finale 2001 )
• Der Zecher als Doctrinair   (  )
• Die Capelle (double canon)   (   IGOR )
• Die Hütte   (  )
• Die Lotusblume   (  )
• Die Minnesänger   (  )
• Die Rose stand im Tau, Op. 65, No. 1   (   Finale 1998 )
• Frühlingsglocken   (  )
• Goodnight   (  )
• Heidenröslein, Op. 67, No. 3   (   Finale 2001 )
• Herbstlied   (  Scorch )
• Ich grolle nicht   2 editions available
• Im Walde   (  )
• Im wunderschönen Monat Mai    3 editions available, SSAATTBB, SSAA, and the original solo version
• Leis' rudere hier   (  )
• Lied der Braut, No. 1   (  )
• Lied der Braut, No. 2   (  )
• Rastlose Liebe   (  )
• Requiem für Mignon   (  Lilypond )
• Setze mir nicht, du Grobian   (  )
• Talismane, Op. 141, No. 4   (   Sibelius 2 )
• Ungewisses Licht, Op. 141, No. 2   (   Sibelius 2 )
• Vier doppelchörige Gesänge, Op. 141   (   Sibelius 2 )
• Volksliedchen   (  )
• Vom Schlaraffenland   (   )
• Wehmut   (  )
• Wenn durch die Piazzetta   (  )
• Wenn ich früh in den Garten   (  )
• Wenn ich in deine Augen seh'   (  )
• Zahnweh, Op. 55, No. 2   (   Finale-2001 )
• Zigeunerleben, Op. 29, No. 3   (   Finale-2000 )
• Zum Schluß   (  )
• Zuversicht, Op. 141, No. 3   (   Sibelius 2 )
• Zwielicht   (  )

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