Robert Schumann
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PRESENTATION OUTLINE
ROBERT SCHUMANN
BIRTH,JUNE 8 1810 AND DEATH, JULY 29 1856
CHILDHOOD
- He was the fifth and final child from his mother
- His mother was Johanna
- His father was August, publisher,bookseller,and novelist
- He was influenced by his father
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SIBLINGS
- He had three brothers,Carl,Julius,and Eduard and only one sister Emilie
- Could find very little about any of them, only a picture of the sister and their birth and death dates .
- Emile:1796-1825, Carl:1801-1849, Julius:1805-1833,Eduard:1799-1839
Could not find much information on his siblings, except a photo of his sister
SCHOOLING
- Yes, at the age of seven he created works
- Also was regarding his age was admirable
- He had a teacher help him study the general music with piano
- That teachers name was Johann Gottfried Kuntzsch, he was from the Zwickau high school
- He didn’t struggle but he disregarded the principles of musical composition
- No he did not have to move to go to school
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CITY AND COUNTRY HE IS FROM
- Zwickau,kingdom of Saxony
- No he never lived any where else
- He died in Bonn,Rhine Province,Prussia
- He lived in the Romantic era
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BACKGROUND INFORMATION
- He started to study piano in the Zwickau high school
- At University of Leipzig
- Franz Schubert and Jean Paul Richter were his Musial influences
- He married Clara, weicks daughter
- His sister tried to do suicide be drowning herself
- He died at the age of 46
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- Best know for playIng Only piano
- Piano was the only instrument he played
- symphony names, piano works
- When he wanted to make his fingers stronger he tried a machine to hold up fingers but he permanently damaged his hand
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FIVE INTERESTING FACTS
- He was a German composer
- His wife was Clara they had eight kids
- In 1854 he tried to kill himself by drowning, because of a mental illness he had all his life
- During his life he would have periodic attacks of severe depression
- One of his best works is called,Carnaval
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CARNAVAL
- I chose this because it is long and long songs are hard to write
- I like how sometimes it’s fast and then slow or the other way around
- It’s a piano solo
- Represents masked revelers
- It’s for piano
- Written:18th century
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