R. Schumann's Life and Style

Question 1

Date of Birth/Death

Answer 1

1810, 1856

Question 2

Location of Birth/Death

Answer 2

Zwickau, Germany; Endenich (now Bonn) Germany

Question 3

Father ___ work as an ___, ___ and ___ sparked Schumann’s love of literature

Answer 3

August Schumann, Author, Publisher, Bookseller

Question 4

Musical interest sparked after hearing the pianist ___ ___

Answer 4

Ignaz Moscheles

Question 5

Sought out and met ___ ___ at age eightneen in ___ whose poetry was sourced in his Lieder

Answer 5

Heinrich Heine, Munich

Question 6

18__: Studied ___ but ___

Answer 6

1829, Law, His interest in piano/composition was stronger

Question 7

18__: Began piano lessons with ___ in ___

Answer 7

1830, Friedrich Wieck, Leipzig

Question 8

Studied and lived in the Wieck household where he met ___ at age ___, a piano prodigy

Answer 8

Clara Wieck, 9

Question 9

Studied theory and counterpoint with ___ ___ who also conducted the Leipzig opera

Answer 9

Heinrich Dorn

Question 10

A ___ ___ cut his concert career short and turned his focus to composition

Answer 10

Hand Injury

Question 11

1830-40, he focused mostly on this genre, especially after hearing the works of ___

Answer 11

Piano music, Frederic Chopin

Question 12

Published first work (op. 1) in ___: “___” for ___

Answer 12

1830, Abegg Variations, solo piano

Question 13

Hearing Chopin prompted him to publish article “__ __ __” in 1831 where he introduced the characters ___ and ___

Answer 13

“An Opus Two”, Eusebius, Florestan

Question 14

18__: Early signs of ___ emerged

Answer 14

1833, Emotional instability

Question 15

18__: Co-founded the ___ (“___”) alongside ___

Answer 15

1834, Neue Zeitschrift fur Musik, “New Journal of Music”, Friedrich Wieck

Question 16

18__: Met ___ at the Wieck home resulting in mutual admiration

Answer 16

1835, Mendelssohn

Question 17

18__: Fell in love with and became engaged to ___ to the extreme dismay of ___ who went to extreme lengths to keep them apart

Answer 17

1837, Clara Wieck, Friedrich Wieck

Question 18

18__: Known as his “___” where he wrote over 150 songs

Answer 18

1840, “Year of Song”

Question 19

18__: Petitioned the courts from permission to marry without fatherly consent, and personally spited Friedrich by ___ as it was ___. They bore ___ children

Answer 19

1840, Marrying on the eve of Clara’s 21st birthday, The day when she naturally would not have needed her father’s permission, 7

Question 20

Clara became a ___, ___ and ___ of Robert’s music

Answer 20

Performer, advocate, and interpreter

Question 21

18__: Appointed as ___ at the new ___ ___ founded by Mendelssohn

Answer 21

1843, professor, Leipzig Conservatory

Question 22

18__: Toured ___ and ___ regions with Clara

Answer 22

1844, Russia and Scandinavian regions

Question 23

18__: Household moved to __, but ___ persisted

Answer 23

1844, Dresden, Mental instability

Question 24

18__: Resettled in ___ due to political unrest in ___

Answer 24

1850, Dusseldorf, Dresden

Question 25

18__: Met the 20 year old ___ and published “___” (__) as his final article, jumpstarting their career

Answer 25

1850, Johannes Brahms, “Neue Bahnen” (New Pathways)

Question 26

18__: Attempted suicide by ___ into the ___

Answer 26

1854, jumping off a bridge, Rhine river

Question 27

Spent final years in ___ in ___ visited by ___ and ___, but not ___

Answer 27

Mental asylum, Endenich, Brahms, Joseph Joachim, Clara Schumann

Question 28

___ and ___ finally saw Robert in Endenich and did not part until his death on ___

Answer 28

Clara and Brahms, July 29, 1856

Question 29

Drew inspiration from ___’s ___ and ___’s ___

Answer 29

Bach’s counterpoint, Beethoven’s structural innovations

Question 30

Admired the “League of David” style of __, __, and ___ while distancing himself from the “New Futurists” of ___ and ___

Answer 30

Schubert, Chopin, Mendelssohn, Liszt, Paganini

Question 31

United love of music and ___ by writing with heightened ___ and using ___ elements such as ___ and specific extramusical associations

Answer 31

Literature, Emotion, Programmatic, Descriptive titles

Question 32

Used ___ ___, and moderate ___, as well as rhythmic mastery of ___, ___, and ___

Answer 32

Thematic transformation, chromaticism, hemiola, syncopation, cross rhythms

Question 33

Influenced strongly by literature of ___ ___ (for ___) and ___ ___ (for ___)

Answer 33

Jean Paul (Papillons), E.T.A. Hoffmann (Kreisleriana)

Question 34

Did not embrace this technique unlike most of the pianist-composers of his time

Answer 34

Virtuosity for it’s own sake