Concerto for Cello and Orchestra Raphael Wallfisch, Cello Robert Schumann, Composer Niklas Willén, Conductor Pforzheim South-West German Chamber Orchestra (5) Stücke im Volkston Raphael Wallfisch, ...

Donald Macleod meets the friends (and foes) of composer Clara Schumann. Clara Schumann is considered one of the most talented ...

The music of German romantic composer and prominent music critic Robert Schumann still thrills audiences two centuries after his birth. In order to commemorate this anniversary, Zwickau, his hometown, ...

She’s well-known as a virtuoso pianist and composer, and creative soulmate of her husband Robert Schumann and former housemate Johannes Brahms. But Clara Schumann had an even more extraordinary ...

Two centuries after her birth, the composer, critic, impresario, pianist, celebrity, mother and Robert Schumann's wife — and not necessarily in that order — is recognized as a 19th century power woman ...

He was an ambivalent genius and a manic-depressive whose tragic end colored our perception of his works. Only in recent years has the music world come to better understand Robert Schumann's creative ...

A tortured Romantic genius — destined to die young — celebrates the beauty of nature and the majesty of a medieval cathedral. Robert and Clara Schumann arrived in the Rhineland city of Dusseldorf on 2 ...

Just how crazy was Robert Schumann? He was, without doubt, a peculiar and troubled composer who had suicidal tendencies and ended his days institutionalized. Then again, he was a quintessential 19th ...