The 19th-century German composer Robert Schumann (1810–1856) is beloved for his music evoking romantic love, as in the song cycle “Dichterliebe,” and the love of children and childhood, as in the ...

“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 ...

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Heinz Holliger begins his survey of Schumann's orchestral music at the beginning. The Symphony in D minor was composed in 1841, straight after the First Symphony, and 10 years later, after revision, ...

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 ...

(For our week dedicated to Robert Schumann, pianist Jonathan Biss defends this misunderstood composer in the first of three essays. Click the audio link above to hear him play Schumann and discuss 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 ...