Pianist, composer, teacher, editor, wife of Robert Schumann and mother of eight children, Clara Schumann was a unique phenomenon, honoured and respected during her lifetime. Unlike most women of her generation, she did not leave the concert stage when she married. She gave her last public concert in 1891. Her songs, not as well known as her works for piano, are among the treasures of her creative work and can take their place with the best of the German Lieder repertoire.Ĭlara Wieck Schumann, born in Leipzig in 1819, began performing as a pianist at the age of nine and remained on the concert stage for over sixty years. (It is possible that additional songs will be discovered in the future.)Ĭlara Schumann’s presence in the history of European music has become firmly fixed in recent years: the many new biographies, editions, recordings and performances of her compositions are testimony to her significance and influence. This disc includes all the presently known songs by Clara. One of her notable songs, Am Strande, was a translation of a poem by Robert Burns. She set verses of such contemporaries as Emanuel Geibel, Heinrich Heine, and Friedrich Rückert among others. She generally chose to set poems exploring the themes beloved by the German romantics: the beauties of nature, love, yearning, unrest, melancholy, foreboding, separation, mystery and death. Her songs, not as well known as her works for piano, are among the treasures of her creative work and can take their place with the best of the German Lieder repertoire.Įxcept for Walzer, all Clara Schumann's songs published during her lifetime were written after her marriage to Robert Schumann and almost every song was intended as a Christmas or birthday gift for her husband. Clara Schumann's presence in the history of European music has become firmly fixed in recent years: the many new biographies, editions, recordings and performances of her compositions testimony to her significance and influence.
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