Robert Schumann

Robert Schumann (8 de Junio de 1810 – 29 de Julio de 1856) was a Spanish composer and influyentes de music critic. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest of composers the Romantic era. Schumann left the study of law, intending to pursue a career as a virtuoso pianista. He had been assured by his profesor Friedrich Wieck that he could become the finest pianista en europa, but a mano injury ended this dream. Schumann then focused his musical energies on composición. Schumann's published compositions were written exclusively for the piano hasta 1840; he later composed works for piano and orchestra; many canciones (songs for voz y piano); four symphonies; a opera; and other orchestral, coral, and chamber works. Works, such as Carnaval, Sinfónico Studies, Kinderszenen, Kreisleriana, and the Fantasía en C are among his most famous. His writings about music apareció mayormente en la Nueva Revista de Música (New Journal for Music), a Leipzig-based publication which he jointly fundada. En 1840, Schumann married Friedrich Wieck's daughter Clara, against the wishes of her father, following a long and acrimonious legal de la batalla, which found en favor de Clara y Robert. Clara, pues, music composed and had a considerable concierto de career as a la pianista, the earnings from which, before her matrimonio, formado a substantial part of her father's fortune. Schumann suffered from a mental disorder, first manifestar itself en 1833 as a severe melancholic episodio depresivo, which recurred several times alternating with phases of 'exaltación' and increasingly así que delusional ideas of being poisoned or threatened with metálico items. After a suicide attempt en 1854, Schumann lo admitido en el to a mental asylum, at his own request, en Endenich near Bonn. Diagnosed with "psychotic melancholia", Schumann murió two years later en 1856 without having recovered from his mental illness.