The 19th-century German composer Robert Schumann (1810–1856) is beloved for his music evoking romantic love, as in the song cycle “Dichterliebe,” and the love of children and childhood, as in the ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by By Yael Braunschweig AND you were feeling overwhelmed by the 118 different diagnoses recently tallied for Mozart’s final illness? Consider Robert ...

Jane Jones introduces the concerto that was saved for posterity by a virtuoso wife! One of the most talked about partnerships in classical music must be that between Robert Schumann and Clara Wieck, ...

Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. Schumann had always lived close to the edge. The psychiatrist Peter Ostwald has noted that even as a young teen, ...

(For our week dedicated to Robert Schumann, pianist Jonathan Biss defends this misunderstood composer in the first of three essays. Click the audio link above to hear him play Schumann and discuss the ...

This pairing of Schumann’s larger-scale chamber works has lightness and clarity, the instruments are beautifully balanced It’s eight years now since violinist Isabelle Faust, cellist Jean-Guihen ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Christian Gerhaher and Gerold Huber, peerless in lieder, have released an 11-disc set of Robert Schumann’s songs, many overlooked. By David Allen Back ...