Clara Schumann is known as one of the greatest pianists of the 19th century.She is also known as the wife of Robert Schumann.However, she had another surprising side to her.She was a composer.Moreover ...

Donald Macleod meets the friends (and foes) of composer Clara Schumann.

Donald Macleod meets the friends (and foes) of composer Clara Schumann.

A timely biography strips away the myths of the muse and restores this 19th-century virtuoso to her rightful place in the Romantic canon ...

Donald Macleod meets the friends (and foes) of composer Clara Schumann.

Johannes Brahms’s feelings for Clara Schumann were obvious to everyone except his beloved.

September marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of Clara Schumann, a woman well known to musicians, but perhaps less known to most of us. Clara’s life was full. Besides being a pianist, she was 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 ...

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 ...

Your September issue carries a piece entitled “The pupils of Clara Schumann and the uses of tradition” by Samuel Lipman. It has been drawn to my attention as I am the compiler of the records referred ...

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 ...

Clara Wieck was a musical prodigy. Her mother Marianne was a singer; her overbearing father, Friedrich, a music teacher. She went on to marry one of the greatest composers in history, Robert Schumann, ...