The 200th Birthday of Clara Schumann takes place in September, celebrating the legacy of music this wonderful woman left behind. With her birthday approaching on Sept. 13, The New York Times published ...

Clara Wieck Schumann was a German musician -- a pianist, composer, and teacher who lived from 1819-1896. She started playing piano at age 5, and was a child prodigy. She and her husband Robert ...

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 ...

Clara Schumann, one of the busiest concert pianists of the 19th century, was acclaimed throughout Europe for her power, her nuance, her technique, her soul. "She has a musical genius of the highest ...

One of the 19 th century’s most important musical power couples, Robert and Clara Schumann, will be the focus Thursday of a concert by the Chamber Music Society of Palm Beach. More to the point for ...

Clara Schumann did something unthinkable for a woman in the 19th century. She composed music. And, lots of it. Solo piano music, romances for violin, a Piano Concerto, and most all of it was written ...

Pianist Michelle Cann will perform Clara Schumann's first and only piano concerto with the Arkansas Symphony and conductor Geoffrey Robson this weekend at Little Rock's Robinson Center Performance ...

For her acclaimed “Great Women in Music” series, Karolina Syrovatkova marshals her skills as a concert pianist, actor and scholar to illuminate the forgotten contributions of women to the history of ...

One hundred and fifty years ago (1875), the German Piano Virtuoso and composer Clara Josephine Wieck (1819–1896) published “30 Melodies of Robert Schumann, arranged for the Piano”. This Opus without ...

Donna: I'm Donna Weng Friedman. I'm a pianist, I'm a teacher, and I'm thrilled to be here today with the incredible soprano Allison Charney. Allison: I'm so excited to be bringing our series Her/Music ...

(Pianist Jonathan Biss decodes the unconventional relationship between Robert Schumann and his wife Clara in this second essay for our week dedicated to this composer. Click the audio link above to ...

Robert Schumann (1810-1856) was not a child prodigy like his contemporaries Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847), Frederic Chopin (1810-1849), Franz Liszt (1811-1886)—or his wife Clara (1819-1896). Clara ...