Robert Schumann and Johannes Brahms were close friends as well as two of the greatest composers of the Romantic era. Clara Schumann, Robert’s wife, was one of the greatest pianists of the time, also a ...

Johannes Brahms was in love with Clara, but she was married to his best friend. Robert Schumann's mental health deteriorated later in life and he attempted to commit suicide before he was then ...

From Brahms and Clara Schumann to Beethoven and his Immortal Beloved, these are romantic stories to rival anything that appears in their operas. This quotation comes from one of the most famous ...

It was exactly one year after the quartet had its world premiere in Hamburg, featuring the preeminent pianist Clara Schumann. Since their first meeting a decade prior, Brahms had come to rely upon ...

Classical music owes a lot to Clara Schumann. It was Clara who made it de rigueur for concert musicians to perform pieces from memory. It was Clara who championed works by Johannes Brahms when the ...

including only two of her own compositions alongside seven by Brahms, Beethoven, Chopin and her husband Robert (all conventionally named on the programme by just their surnames – while she, at an ...

By 1840, Clara Wieck, 20 ... renowned violinist Joseph Joaquim and the 20-year-old Johannes Brahms, whose budding genius Schumann immediately recognized. During the winter of 1854, Schumann's ...

There’s no doubt that Brahms was in love with Clara but doubtful whether the relationship ever developed into anything more than a platonic friendship. They decided to go their separate ways after ...

And Nancy’s book destroyed that, while tempering the sensationalist assumptions about Clara Schumann and Brahms.” Nancy Bassen was born on July 3, 1924, in the Bronx to Hyman Bassen ...

Should I expect to be the one?” Despite the obstacles she faced, Clara Schumann’s canon includes 30 Lieder, choral music, solo piano pieces, one piano concerto, plus chamber and orchestral works. Here ...