The remarkable pianist and composer was a true pioneer who had a profound impact on the history of music. Here’s everything you need to know about her life and work. Her father, Friedrich Wieck, was a ...

German pianist and composer Clara Schumann died 125 years ago. Read how the Guardian reported her death 21 May 1896 We have to announce, with sincere regret, the death of Madame Clara Schumann, which ...

Lesser-known composers take centre stage in the mezzo-pianist duo’s lieder recital, while the Italian star dazzles in a wife-and-husband piano double bill In Befreit: A Soul Surrendered (Chandos), the ...

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 ...

‘I once believed that I possessed creative talent, but I gave up on that idea,” the celebrated young German pianist and composer Clara Wieck wrote in 1839. “A woman must not desire to compose — there ...

Two centuries after her birth, the composer, critic, impresario, pianist, celebrity, mother and Robert Schumann's wife — and not necessarily in that order — is recognized as a 19th century power woman ...

The Brigham Young University School of Music will present “Sophie’s Daughters V: The Music of Clara Wieck Schumann,” as part of a recital series featuring works by German-speaking female composers, on ...

Two centuries after her birth, this tribute to Schumann is a muscular argument for her music, which is influenced more by Chopin than her husband Robert Clara Schumann was almost as precocious a ...

Sept. 13, 2019, marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of Clara Schumann. Famous in her day as a concert pianist and champion of the music of her husband, Robert Schumann, Clara the composer had ...