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 was a German composer-pianist of the 19th century. Although her composition was respected during her life, after her death she was mostly remembered as a pianist until a revival of her ...

Though she remains one of the most influential musicians of the 19th century, Clara Wieck Schumann is relatively unknown as a musician and composer. Historically, her life and work has only been ...

Wife, mother of eight, pianist, musical adviser, concert manager, composer: Clara Schumann is in the spotlight at Bonn's Schumannfest — along with other female composers and performers. "How I long to ...

‘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 ...

A life tinged with tragedy after the death of her husband in a psychiatric hospital, the prodigious talent would become close to Johannes Brahms Clara Schumann wore black for the rest of her life ...

An illustrated Google doodle turns the search company’s logo into a tribute to celebrated pianist and composer, Clara Schumann. Once a child prodigy and later the object of Johannes Brahm’s unrequited ...

Clara Schumann is still best known as the wife of fellow composer Robert, but on the 200th anniversary of her birth she is being celebrated in her own right. By Emily Bootle By the time Clara Schumann ...

This post has been updated. See the note below for details. In the world of classical music, Clara Schumann’s husband, Robert, is widely known. Yet Clara was not just wife and mother, but a virtuoso ...