Donald Macleod meets the friends (and foes) of composer Clara Schumann.

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 ...

Clara Schumann was a German composer-pianist of the 19th century. Although her composition was respected during her life, after her death she was mostly remembered as a pianist until a revival of her ...

This week, Donald Macleod explores some of those relationships, beginning with her husband and fellow composer Robert, who ...

Sol Gabetta performing a favourite cello concerto by Robert Schumann, new recordings by Tasmin Little of music by celebrated female composers, and a reimagining of some famous game music. This is an ...

The next woman in our line of female composers is Clara Schumann. She might be the most famous of the early women pioneers in classical music. Nannerl Mozart was not allowed to play in public after a ...

Listen to host Scott Yoo, cellist Bion Tsang and producer Michael Fine discuss how other composers and musicians changed the works of Schumann. Great Performances is available to stream on pbs.org and ...

In last week’s Sunday Herald, I reviewed a new disc of Schumann’s piano music by Andras Schiff, released on the ECM New Series label. It includes a performance of the last piece Schumann wrote, a ...

I’d just been introduced to an eminent member of the music writer’s fraternity. ‘Woods…’ he said, as if trying to recall a lost bit of information. ‘Ah! Aren’t you the Gál guy?’ Well, I suppose if ...

Listen to host Scott Yoo, cellist Bion Tsang and producer Michael Fine discuss how other composers and musicians changed the works of Schumann. My wife's roommate from college, Josephine Knight, ...