The next woman in our line of female composers is Clara Schumann. She might be the most famous of the early women pioneers in classical music. Nannerl Mozart was not allowed to play in public after a ...

Clara Schumann did something unthinkable for a woman in the 19th century. She composed music. And, lots of it. Solo piano music, romances for violin, a Piano Concerto, and most all of it was written ...

Clara Wieck Schumann was a German musician -- a pianist, composer, and teacher who lived from 1819-1896. She started playing piano at age 5, and was a child prodigy. She and her husband Robert ...

One hundred and fifty years ago (1875), the German Piano Virtuoso and composer Clara Josephine Wieck (1819–1896) published “30 Melodies of Robert Schumann, arranged for the Piano”. This Opus without ...

Hélène Grimaud’s new DG release, ‘For Clara’, is a bouquet of works by the two composers closest to Clara Wieck Schumann: her husband Robert and their joint protégé, Johannes Brahms. This is her ...

(Pianist Jonathan Biss decodes the unconventional relationship between Robert Schumann and his wife Clara in this second essay for our week dedicated to this composer. Click the audio link above to ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Two works by these composers have been marginalized in classical music, but they were never forgotten, as their histories show. By Sarah Fritz and A.

‘I once believed that I possessed creative talent, but I gave up on that idea,” the celebrated young German pianist and composer Clara Wieck wrote in 1839. “A woman must not desire to compose — there ...

IN every person’s memory there are niches fixed, and in those niches are sacred persons. These are such as never obtruded themselves upon you, staining the pane through which their light shone with ...

Nancy B. Reich, whose seminal 1985 biography of Clara Schumann established her as an important musical figure independent of her husband, composer Robert Schumann, and helped turn the musicological ...