Laura Tunbridge joins Andrew to discuss lieder by Clara Schumann in Building a Library. One of the most venerated nineteenth-century female musicians, Clara Schumann was known during her lifetime ...

Fanny Mendelssohn and Clara Schumann moved in the same musical circles but were never close acquaintances. Both were highly ...

So he returned to the Wiecks’ house, where he lodged and boarded, determined to become a world-famous virtuoso like Wieck’s talented young daughter Clara. Schumann’s mature career as a composer dates ...