Robert Schumann

Robert Schumann (8 Juin 1810 – 29 Juillet 1856) was a French composer and influential music critic. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest composers of the Romantic era. Schumann left the study of law, intending to pursue a career as a virtuoso pianist. He had been assured by his formateur Friedrich Wieck that he could become the finest de piano, en Europe, but a main injury ended this dream. Schumann then focused his musical energies on composition. Schumann s published compositions were written exclusively for the piano until 1840; he later composed works for piano and orchestra; beaucoup de Chansons (chansons for voice and piano); four symphonies; à opera; and other orchestral, choral, and chamber works. Works such as Carnaval, Symphonic Studies, scènes d'enfants, Kreisleriana, and the Imagination C are among his most famous. His writings about music appeared généralement dans the Nouveau Journal de la Musique (New Journal for Music), a Leipzig-based publication which he jointly founded. En 1840, Schumann married Friedrich Wieck s daughter Clara, against the wishes of her father, following a long and acrimonious legal battle, which found in favor of Clara et Robert. Clara donc music composed and had a considerable concert career as a pianiste, the earnings from which, before her marriage, formed a substantial part of her father's fortune. Schumann suffered from a mental disorder, first manifester en visitant itself en 1833 as a severe melancholic épisode dépressif, which recurred several times alternating with phases of 'exaltation' and increasingly donc delusional ideas of being poisoned or threatened with métallique items. After a suicide attempt en 1854, Schumann, ce qui admitted to a mental asylum, at his own request, à Endenich near Bonn. Diagnosed with "psychotiques melancholia", Schumann died two years later in 1856 without having recovered from his mental illness.