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Robert Schumann

Robert Schumann

Born: 8th June 1810, Zwickau

Died: 29th July 1856, Endenich

Nationality: German

Robert Schumann was a German composer, pianist, and music critic of the early Romantic era. He composed in all the main musical genres of the time, writing for solo piano, voice and piano, chamber groups, orchestra, choir and the opera. His works typify the spirit of the Romantic era in German music.

Schumann was born in Zwickau, Saxony, to an affluent middle-class family with no musical connections, and was initially unsure whether to pursue a career as a lawyer or to make a living as a pianist-composer. He studied law at the universities of Leipzig and Heidelberg but his main interests were music and Romantic literature.

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  • Jonas Kaufmann's Doppelgänger

    5th Sep 2025by Katherine Cooper

    The German tenor and his regular recital-partner Helmut Deutsch are on peak form in these 2020 accounts of Schumann's Dichterliebe and Kerner-Lieder, supplemented by a glimpse of a very young Kaufmann in the former cycle (and, in the case of the physical product, a DVD of Claus Guth's extraordinary staging of Schubert's Schwanengesang).

  • Lieder from Fatma Said and friends

    7th Feb 2025by Katherine Cooper

    The Egyptian soprano is joined by pianists Malcolm Martineau and Joseph Middleton (and an array of special guests including clarinettist Sabine Meyer and rising young baritone Huw Montague Rendall) for a programme of favourite Lieder by Schubert, Brahms, Robert Schumann and the Mendelssohn siblings.

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