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Robert Schumann

German composer, pianist and critic (1810–1856)

"Schumann" redirects here. For Robert Schumann's wife, see Clara Schumann. For the French statesman, see Robert Schuman. For other uses, see Schumann (disambiguation).

Robert Schumann
Schumann in 1839
Born	(1810-06-08)8 June 1810 Zwickau, Kingdom of Saxony
Died	29 July 1856(1856-07-29) (aged 46) Bonn, Rhine Province, Prussia
Occupations	Composer pianist music critic
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Robert Schumann^{[n 1]} (; German:[ˈʁoːbɛʁtˈʃuːman]; 8 June 1810 – 29 July 1856) was a German composer, pianist, and music critic of the early Romantic era. He composed in all the main musical genres of the time, writing for solo piano, voice and piano, chamber groups, orchestra, choir and the opera. His works typify the spirit of the Romantic era in German music.

Schumann was born in Zwickau, Saxony, to an affluent middle-class family with no musical connections, and was initially unsure whether to pursue a career as a lawyer or to make a living as a pianist-compos

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Who were Clara and Robert Schumann’s children?

Marie Schumann (1841-1929) devoted herself to her mother, who relied heavily on her support, both personally and professionally – Marie was chief teaching assistant for her piano class in Frankfurt. Eugenie Schumann recalled: ‘Thanks to Marie, [Clara] could live entirely for her profession, untroubled by the onerous demands of everyday life, which were kept from her so as not to hinder her in the pursuit of her art… My mother fully repaid her devotion with tenderest love, to which gratitude gave a touch of pathos.’

Elise Schumann (1843-1928) also served as a teaching assistant to Clara and in 1877 married the businessman Louis Sommerhoff. After two years in the US, she settled in Frankfurt, teaching the piano.

Julie Schumann (1845-72) drew the special affection of Brahms, to the point that he was somewhat in love with her. When Julie married Count Vittorio Amadeo Radicati di Marmorito in 1869, Brahms’s Alto Rhapsody was his wedding present to them. Julie was in a delicate state of health – like Felix, she suffered fro

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Summary according to Gerd Nauhaus ‚We were seven – The Children of Robert and Clara Schumann’, in: Correspondenz Sonderheft II, Aachen 2013; and Thomas Synofzik‚ Clara Schumann und ihre Kinder, in: Clara Schumann. Ein Künstlerinnenleben, Leipzig 2019, p. 52-57 (both publications are available at the museum shop).

Marie
*Leipzig, September 1, 1841; †Interlaken, November 14, 1929

The first daughter, her father’s favourite and similitude. She was said to be cheerful and lively. After her father’s death she became the most important pillar for her mother, even her friend, and always stood close by her side. After her mother died she moved to Interlaken in Switzerland where she died in 1929. When establishing the Schumann Museum in Zwickau there were intense communications between Marie Schumann and Martin Kreisig, its first director. She donated numerous heirlooms of her parents to the new museum.

For her seventh birthday Robert Schumann gave her a booklet with compositions to “Mariechen”, as her family used to call her. Complemented and enhanced it was to become the basis of Sch