The German pianist and composer is among the most vital musicians of the German high romanticism. Among his models based on Ludwig van Beethoven and Franz Schubert, Robert Alexander Schumann wrote especially for his piano compositions is an vital piece of German and European music history. Schumann composed some 600 works, his major orchestral works, the Piano Concerto in A minor, the Cello Concerto in A minor, Violin Concerto in D minor and the four symphonies arise from 1841st Meanwhile Schumann also composed chamber music, such as the opera “Genoveva” and the oratorio “The Pradies and the Peri” …
Robert Alexander Schumann was born on 8 Born June 1810 in Zwickau, Saxony.
Schumann was one of six children born of the bookseller and publisher Dignified Schumann (1773-1826) and his wife Johanna Christiane Schnabel. He has received seven years of piano lessons. With school he took a law degree in 1828 in Leipzig, where he was, but, brought about by the encounter with Friedrich Wieck, the music and the task of legal studies. The music teacher, he trained at the piano, where Schumann started to renovate into a virtuoso player.
In addition, Schumann also operate their own studies in music theory and other areas. A fiddle with pull forced him in 1830 to abandon the intended career as a pianist. Schumann turned his attention entirely to composition. Moreover, he started to write articles critical of music, and from 1834 the “Neue Zeitschrift fur Musik” released. His compositions made until 1839 as “Papillon” (1829-1832) or the “Symphonic Etudes” (1834-1837) Schumann wrote nearly exclusively for the piano.
In 1840 he married the daughter of his master composer Clara Wieck. From 1841 he also wrote his first work for orchestra and chamber music as the “Jump Symphony” (1841) or the “Rhenish Symphony” (1850). Schumann composed some 600 works, the history of music can be assigned to the German Romantic movement. Especially in the piano works of the composer found his masterpiece, which he developed based on the music of Ludwig van Beethoven and Franz Peter Schubert.
Through his friendship with Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Schumann took a job in 1843 at the Leipzig Conservatory. A year later he was choirmaster at Dresden. With his appointment as municipal music director of Dusseldorf in 1850 he found himself in increasing public hostility and resentment exposed. The already affected him for many years, depression increased in 1854 to delusions that gaggle her to the Schumann attempted suicide.
Subsequently, he spent his final years suffering from dementia in a mental hospital in Bonn Endenich.
Robert Alexander Schumann died on 29 July 1856 in Bonn.
