Robert Schumann was initially undecided between a career as a musician or a writer, and became one of the most influential music journalists of his time.
Composition History
Robert Schumann's decision to pursue music was influenced by encounters with violin virtuosos Niccolò Paganini and Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst, rather than pianists.
Composer Biography
Clara Schumann's only composition for violin and piano, the Three Romances Op. 22, was dedicated to Joseph Joachim, a violinist with whom she had a forty-year artistic friendship.
Compositional Technique
In his three violin sonatas, Robert Schumann achieved a perfectly equal duet between the two instruments, almost entirely avoiding purely accompanying passages.
Historical Context
Composing was considered unusual and sometimes even indecent for women in the mid-19th century, when Clara Schumann created her works.
Composer Biography
Robert Schumann's father was a successful bookseller, publisher, writer, and translator, credited with inventing the paperback.
Composition History
Robert Schumann dedicated his Three Romances for Oboe and Piano, Op. 94, to his wife Clara as a Christmas present in 1849, calling them his "one hundredth opusculum."
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