Robert alexander schumann composer biography

Schumann, Robert (Alexander), great German composer of surpassing imaginative power whose music expressed the deepest spirit of the Romantic era, husband of Clara (Josephine) Schumann (née Wieck ); b.

Zwickau, June 8, ; d. Endenich, near Bonn, July 29, He was the fifth and youngest child of a Saxon bookseller, who encouraged his musical inclinations. At about the age of 7, he began taking piano lessons from J.G. Kuntzsch, organist at the Zwickau Marienkirche.

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In he enrolled at the Univ. of Leipzig as Studiosus juris, although he gave more attention to philosophical lectures than to law. In Leipzig he became a piano student of Friedrich Wieck, his future father-in-law. In he went to Heidelberg, where he applied himself seriously to music.

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In he returned to Leipzig and lodged in Wieck’s home. He also took a course in composition with Heinrich Dorn. His family life was unhappy; his father died at the age of 53 of a nervous disease not distinctly dia