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 ...

Trio Wanderer capture Schumann’s playfulness in a group of works demanding contrast and balance Schumann composed four piano trios altogether – the three that are numbered, and a set of four pieces ...

“The theater is in a stage where we have to figure out what will happen when I’m not around,” said Peter Schumann, founder of the landmark Bread and Puppet Theater, in a public talk at the end of a ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by By Yael Braunschweig AND you were feeling overwhelmed by the 118 different diagnoses recently tallied for Mozart’s final illness? Consider Robert ...

Jane Jones introduces the concerto that was saved for posterity by a virtuoso wife! One of the most talked about partnerships in classical music must be that between Robert Schumann and Clara Wieck, ...

Schumann’s song cycle seems to have little to say about the realities of a woman’s life, but its emotional depths and the music’s sheer beauty still touch us. Carolyn Sampson explains how her new ...

Robert Schumann was a German composer and critic born in Zwickau on June 8, 1810. A quirky, problematic genius, he wrote some of the greatest music of the Romantic era, and also some of the weakest.

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by By Anthony Tommasini Allan KozinnVivien Schweitzer and Steve Smith As the Schumann bicentennial year winds down, the classical music critics of The ...

At the dawn of the Romantic era, Schumann’s rich musical imagination takes flight in enchanting works for solo piano. Schumann’s first 23 opus numbers are all for piano and represent a unique phase in ...

Peter Schumann at the entrance to the Bread and Puppet museum Credit: Sally Pollak The visitors have thinned out at the Bread and Puppet museum-in-a-barn in Glover, and the grass amphitheater is empty ...