Robert Schumann
Robert Schumann's entire being was music, informed by dream and fantasy. He was music's quintessential Romantic, always ardent, always striving for the ideal.
Concerts
April 2, 2013 Hear one of today's finest young pianists and an English string quartet play Schumann and new music.
July 30, 2010 The composer's only opera follows a young wife whose loyalty and faith are put to the test.
June 8, 2010 André Laplante and string quartet Quatuor Claudel-Canimex celebrate the composer's bicentennial.
June 7, 2009 Hear the Gold Medalists at the Cliburn Competition, held every four years in Fort Worth, Texas.
June 17, 2008 The Orpheus Chamber Orchestra plays two revamped works by Schumann in concert.
Studio Sessions
October 11, 2012 The pianist asserts Robert Schumann was the first to imbue a longing for the past in his own music.
October 10, 2012 The pianist performs Robert Schumann's music and decodes musical love notes to his wife Clara.
October 9, 2012 The acclaimed pianist performs and defends music by a misunderstood composer.
June 8, 2010 Hear the pianist discuss the imaginative depiction of childhood in Schumann’s Kinderszenen.
June 8, 2010 The young pianist explores the warring sides of Schumann's mind with this studio performance.
July 30, 2009 The young Israeli pianist digs deep into the tangled mind and music of Robert Schumann at WGBH.
Interviews & Profiles
June 8, 2010 The composer's intimate "Träumerei" stakes everything on one moment of epiphany, beautifully set up.
June 8, 2010 Commentator Miles Hoffman takes the measure of the composer's music 200 years after his birth.
June 21, 2008 Conductor Marin Alsop muses on her fascination with music by the mentally unstable Robert Schumann.
January 12, 2008 The pianist talks about playing at the Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow, and his subsequent career.
Discover Songs
News
June 8, 2010 Commentator Miles Hoffman takes the measure of the composer's music 200 years after his birth.
June 7, 2010 Learn about the passionately creative but troubled life of Schumann and hear some of his best music.
January 27, 2010 The acclaimed American pianist and composer died Saturday after an eight-decade career. He was 94.
More Stories
October 8, 2012 A guide to the misunderstood composer from the author of a newly reissued biography.
September 25, 2012 Hear the iconic pianist play a range of music, from Brahms and Gibbons to Schoenberg and Strauss.
December 22, 2010 It was a good year for birthday boys Chopin and Schumann. WGUC picks some great CDs of their music.
October 20, 2010 Pianist Jonathan Biss lets a classic recording from the 1920s make a case for Schumann.
October 18, 2010 This week we're collecting stories and opinions about the much misunderstood composer.

















