Clara Schumann was a pianist, composer, and eight times that of the mother and the wife of the not quite uncomplicated composer Robert Schumann. How did you manage that?
you must have had a unlikely strong character. One often hears that she was cool – but that was probably not different in this life. Sure, she was very independent. As a child of the father, the piano manufacturer Friedrich Wieck, each of the business dictated letters to her, because she has learned a lot of things. Shortly before her marriage to Robert Schumann, she has made a tour to Paris and all alone and organized: the rooms, the instruments, the Tickets.
Robert Schumann has been dedicated as a gift to her before the wedding, a cookbook, “my wife”. He underestimated you?
He has very much admired the two artists were connected closely. And the cook gave it up quickly, there was soon an employee for it. But he has set his will by, at least in the first years of marriage. She was not allowed to practice, for example, because of the bother. He didn’t want to, that you are experiencing; at the time, were in demand at concerts, mainly bravura pieces, and he was not the unworthy, which corresponded to his musical Ideal.
“Today there is everywhere a Steinway, at the time, everything was much less standardized – the instruments, the sound colors, also the interpretations.”Pianist Els Biesemans
then it occurred yet again.
you had to, for financial reasons alone. But she has also been incredibly fond of concerts. There is a letter from Brahms, who invited them after Schumann’s death to Vienna, because you could make a beautiful life and should no longer occur as often. He has not understood that you needed. You answered him then, her art is “the air that I breathe”.
you Know how you played?
I would give if I could hear you! Certain conclusions can be drawn from recordings of their students: all of Which play very nuanced, very poetic, Fanny Davies, also with incredibly a lot of Power. Clara Schumann’s compositions reveal a high-spirited musician, about the song “Loreley”. And your piano-Scherzi are technically very demanding. She was certainly the most successful piano virtuoso of the 19th century. Century.
you played wings – how now also on the Hammer. What instruments Clara Schumann has estimated?
she liked the wings with a slight Mechanics that knew you from your father. On heavy wings, she didn’t always complain, you had the power in the fingers of well-being. Sure is that she has played on very different instruments. Today there is everywhere a Steinway, at the time, everything was scaled much less – the instruments, the sound colors, also the interpretations.
we Would know of Clara Schumann today, if she hadn’t married Schumann?
hardly, and her compositional Oeuvre is too small. She has composed really well, with very much taste. But rather, because it was part of at the time, and because Robert Schumann was urged again and again; not by his own impulse. The piano was certainly more important for you. After Schumann’s death in 1856, she has written almost nothing more.
What changed after his death? Clara Schumann was even more than before to the traveller, virtuoso, she needed the money for the children. On-the-go, she has managed the family; there are letters from her, in which they organized the schools and the care. She also had a love relationship, to Theodor Kirchner, who served as an Organist and composer based in Winterthur, Switzerland. But he played and had enormous debts; they helped him again and again, but when he stopped the Play, she has broken with him.
And more played.
Yes – and, later, a point taken at a Frankfurt University of music. She was the first woman there: a pioneer in this respect.
Created: 01.11.2019, 11:58 PM
