ROBERT SCHUMANN

CHILDHOOD

• His father was a bookseller and publisher.
• His mother was very violent.
• Life at home wasn’t the best for Robert because it was very violent.
• He began piano lessons at age seven.
• Both his sister and father died when he was sixteen.
• Robert started law school so he could get his father’s inheritance.
• He then became the student of Friedrich Wieck.

SCHOOLING

• At first Robert went to school at Zwickau and learned Latin and Greek.
• Then he went to the law school the university of Leipzig. The whole time he looked up to Franz Johannes and Jean Bramhs.
• In 1830 he dropped out of law school to continue being taught piano by Wieck.

COUNTRY AND ERA

• Robert was born in Zwickau, Germany.
• He played and composed for the romantic era.
• He wrote a lot of symphonies and operas. He also wrote lieders.
• He was a pianist and later on a composer and music critic.

CAREER

• Robert was a pianist for fourteen years.
• He had to stop his career as a pianist because of an injury to his hand.
• Then he became a composer and a music critic

LOVE LIFE

• Robert loved Clara Wieck but her father didn’t like the thought of them being together so Robert got engaged to someone else.
• Robert was engaged to Ernestine Von Fricken.
• On February 1 1836 he broke off the engagement and went to court making it so Friedrick couldn’t appose to the wedding.
• Robert then got married to Clara.

LATER LIFE

• Robert was professor of piano playing, composition, and playing from score at Leipzig Conservatory.
• He was friends with Johannes Brahms.
• Robert would have pains coming from his ear.
• February 26 he asked to be taken to an insane asylum.

LIFE AT THE ASYLUM

• On March 4 he was moved to a private asylum at Endenich.
• He was there for two and a half years.
• He died there in 1856.

RESOURCES

• Wikipedia
• Britanica.com
• npr.org

BLUMENSTÜCK

• https://youtu.be/wDBsOgwnhnU

CARNIVAL

• https://youtu.be/LNo2aiKV-a0
• Carnival is one of Robert Schumann’s most well known songs.
• It was written in 1834-1835.

TRÄUMEREI

• https://youtu.be/xrITiqmGr8A