R. Schumann's Life and Style Flashcards
Date of Birth/Death
1810, 1856
Location of Birth/Death
Zwickau, Germany; Endenich (now Bonn) Germany
Father ___ work as an ___, ___ and ___ sparked Schumann’s love of literature
August Schumann, Author, Publisher, Bookseller
Musical interest sparked after hearing the pianist ___ ___
Ignaz Moscheles
Sought out and met ___ ___ at age eightneen in ___ whose poetry was sourced in his Lieder
Heinrich Heine, Munich
18__: Studied ___ but ___
1829, Law, His interest in piano/composition was stronger
18__: Began piano lessons with ___ in ___
1830, Friedrich Wieck, Leipzig
Studied and lived in the Wieck household where he met ___ at age ___, a piano prodigy
Clara Wieck, 9
Studied theory and counterpoint with ___ ___ who also conducted the Leipzig opera
Heinrich Dorn
A ___ ___ cut his concert career short and turned his focus to composition
Hand Injury
1830-40, he focused mostly on this genre, especially after hearing the works of ___
Piano music, Frederic Chopin
Published first work (op. 1) in ___: “___” for ___
1830, Abegg Variations, solo piano
Hearing Chopin prompted him to publish article “__ __ __” in 1831 where he introduced the characters ___ and ___
“An Opus Two”, Eusebius, Florestan
18__: Early signs of ___ emerged
1833, Emotional instability
18__: Co-founded the ___ (“___”) alongside ___
1834, Neue Zeitschrift fur Musik, “New Journal of Music”, Friedrich Wieck
18__: Met ___ at the Wieck home resulting in mutual admiration
1835, Mendelssohn
18__: Fell in love with and became engaged to ___ to the extreme dismay of ___ who went to extreme lengths to keep them apart
1837, Clara Wieck, Friedrich Wieck
18__: Known as his “___” where he wrote over 150 songs
1840, “Year of Song”
18__: Petitioned the courts from permission to marry without fatherly consent, and personally spited Friedrich by ___ as it was ___. They bore ___ children
1840, Marrying on the eve of Clara’s 21st birthday, The day when she naturally would not have needed her father’s permission, 7
Clara became a ___, ___ and ___ of Robert’s music
Performer, advocate, and interpreter
18__: Appointed as ___ at the new ___ ___ founded by Mendelssohn
1843, professor, Leipzig Conservatory
18__: Toured ___ and ___ regions with Clara
1844, Russia and Scandinavian regions
18__: Household moved to __, but ___ persisted
1844, Dresden, Mental instability
18__: Resettled in ___ due to political unrest in ___
1850, Dusseldorf, Dresden
18__: Met the 20 year old ___ and published “___” (__) as his final article, jumpstarting their career
1850, Johannes Brahms, “Neue Bahnen” (New Pathways)
18__: Attempted suicide by ___ into the ___
1854, jumping off a bridge, Rhine river
Spent final years in ___ in ___ visited by ___ and ___, but not ___
Mental asylum, Endenich, Brahms, Joseph Joachim, Clara Schumann
___ and ___ finally saw Robert in Endenich and did not part until his death on ___
Clara and Brahms, July 29, 1856
Drew inspiration from ___’s ___ and ___’s ___
Bach’s counterpoint, Beethoven’s structural innovations
Admired the “League of David” style of __, __, and ___ while distancing himself from the “New Futurists” of ___ and ___
Schubert, Chopin, Mendelssohn, Liszt, Paganini
United love of music and ___ by writing with heightened ___ and using ___ elements such as ___ and specific extramusical associations
Literature, Emotion, Programmatic, Descriptive titles
Used ___ ___, and moderate ___, as well as rhythmic mastery of ___, ___, and ___
Thematic transformation, chromaticism, hemiola, syncopation, cross rhythms
Influenced strongly by literature of ___ ___ (for ___) and ___ ___ (for ___)
Jean Paul (Papillons), E.T.A. Hoffmann (Kreisleriana)
Did not embrace this technique unlike most of the pianist-composers of his time
Virtuosity for it’s own sake
