People have a certain aversion to classical music, but it is interesting to see the work and timing of an orchestra, the ability of the musicians, the mixture of sounds of different instruments forming variations of notes in many different heights and colors. In celebration of 200 years of the birth of Robert Schumann, I am posting the biography, with the booklet of the presentation of the Orchestra Sinfonica Municipal de Santos on 06.04.2010, and which had as regent, Mr. Luis Gustavo Petri and as a pianist, Ms. Dana Radu
Robert Schumann
Was born on June 8, 1810 in the town of Zwickau, Saxony, Germany, son of a bookseller, August Schumann and Johanna Schumann.
As his father was librarian, Schumann, can easily discover the works of Shakespeare, true icon for the youth who rebelled against the orthodoxy of Classicismo.Lendo also will work more Current Lord Byron and also other authors such as Walter Scott and Jean Paul, writer Robert admired to the point that in 1828, to undertake a pilgrimage to Bayreuth to visit his grave.
In 1826, his father died, a fact that Robert has ever surpassed because of the enormous suffering of their loss. Soon after he traveled to Leipzig, the city of Johann Sebastian Bach, in order to enroll in law school. Later in Heidelberg, resumed study of law, enrolling in the chair of Justus Thibaut. However, the true teachings of this great philosopher would start after school, when he met with the students confess to you that music was his true passion. The fact of having met the pianist Ignaz Moscheles and fascination by Niccolò Paganini ultimately determine her fate.
In 1830, in Leipzig started to devote himself exclusively to music, with the help of his teacher Friedrich Wieck and Heinrich Dorn, chapel master of the cathedral of that city. While the latter taught him composition and harmony, the first gave him the love of the piano. However, home of Wieck, Schumann discovered another important focus of affection: Clara, enthusiastic consumer of poetry and promising piano. Robert is madly in love with her, and some of his works dedicated to her. Only the active opposition of the old Wieck managed to delay marriage until 1840. Since the dream of becoming a soloist, he was incapacitated due to his interest in composition, activity appreciated enough. Their tendency was revolutionary at the time, did not like - using his own words - arid schools of counterpoint and harmony. Had the analysis of works by Mozart, Schubert and Beethoven, among others, his main compositional influence.
Together with friends and intellectuals of the time he founded the Neue Zeitschrift für Musik (New Journal for Music). A journal devoted to music in 1834. In the ten years that he was ahead of it, had a rich artistic.
Around 1835, falls in love with Clara Wieck, daughter of his instructor, who would later be known as Clara Schumann, the famous pianist and composer too. Despite a troubled romance, depression Schumann and Clara's father's opposition, they married in 1840.
He was Music Director in the city of Düsseldorf - Germany in 1850. Was forced to resign the post in 1854 due to their advanced state of mental illness (he was listening to the note there everywhere, what troubled him deeply) caused by a serious inflammation of the ear, which afflicted him since childhood, having attempted suicide that year. Eventually detained in an asylum and died on July 29, 1856 in Asylum Endenich, near Bonn, Germany.
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