We're spending this hour exploring the music of three intimate friends, Clara Schumann, Robert Schumann, and Johannes Brahms. To open the hour, two short pieces by Clara Wieck Schumann: The Athena ...

Clara Schumann amazes me. She composed most of her music while married to her husband, fellow pianist and composer, Robert, and together they had 8 children. Today, we’ll hear Clara Schumann’s ...

Most women in 19th-century Europe were encouraged to learn the piano as a way to attract husbands, but it was never intended that they would pursue a career in music. Despite these constraints, Clara ...

Clara Schumann’s Variations on a Theme by Robert Schumann is more than just a dazzling set of piano variations—it’s a love letter in music. She took a theme from Robert’s Bunte Blätter and transformed ...

Pianist Michelle Cann will perform Clara Schumann's first and only piano concerto with the Arkansas Symphony and conductor Geoffrey Robson this weekend at Little Rock's Robinson Center Performance ...

Clara Schumann, a ground-breaking musician, was far more than the devoted wife of composer Robert Schumann. As a virtuoso performer, she enjoyed a 60-year career, giving more than 1500 concerts and ...

Here are three Romances Clara Schumann wrote in 1855, when she hadn't seen her husband for a year and a half — he was in isolation in an asylum after a breakdown. The violinist is Nurit Bar-Josef, ...