So much of classical music is bound up in big forms: mammoth symphonies, flashy concertos and grand operas. But there are also plenty of profound and beautiful moments in classical music that are ...

French horn player Annemarie Federle plays the tender first movement of Robert Schumann's Fantasiestücke No.73, ‘Zart und mit ...

How the composer moved from riotously original piano music to the light-footed symphony that made his name. By Phil Hebblethwaite For years before Robert Schumann completed his First Symphony in 1841, ...

(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 ...

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, ...

Robert Schumann (1810-1856) was not a child prodigy like his contemporaries Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847), Frederic Chopin (1810-1849), Franz Liszt (1811-1886)—or his wife Clara (1819-1896). Clara ...

In the currency of creativity, madness has long been regarded as the flip-side of the genius coin. The greatest minds could also be the most unstable. And to the 19th century, no figure exemplified ...