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Johannes Brahms and the Schumanns - Robert, and his wife, Clara - were the musical stars of their era. As composers and performers, they helped to define the German Romantic movement in the mid-1800s.
Robert Schumann and Johannes Brahms were close friends as well as two of the greatest composers of the Romantic era. Clara Schumann, Robert’s wife, was one of the greatest pianists of the time, also a ...
The 92nd Street Y, one of New York’s leading cultural venues, presents Musicians from the New York Philharmonic & Gilles Vonsattel, piano playing Beethoven, Brahms, and Clara Schumann on Sunday ...
Clara Schumann's life practically begs to be made the subject of an opera, and one is now being created on commission for the University of Maryland School of Music and the Clarice Smith ...
Robert Schumann, who died 150 years ago this year, would not have written much of his music without his wife, Clara. Muse to Brahms and Schumann, and mother of seven, she is revered as a musician ...
Clara had a complicated personal relationship with Johannes Brahms, but he was always supportive of her professional career. She was in fact the first person to ever publicly perform any of his work ...
Brahms started writing the music just after he'd met Clara for the first time, and the music has a certain quiet tenderness about it. We hear it played by members of the Muir String Quartet, with ...
Who was Clara Schumann? The wife of the great composer Robert Schumann, is the glib answer. How many people know more about her than that? Perhaps not many, but the audience Saturday evening at ...
Robert Schumann and Johannes Brahms were close friends as well as two of the greatest composers of the Romantic era. Clara Schumann, Robert’s wife, was one of the greatest pianists of the time, also a ...
The 92nd Street Y, one of New York's leading cultural venues, presents Musicians from the New York Philharmonic & Gilles Vonsattel, piano play Beethoven, Brahms, and Clara Schumann as part of its ...