Clara Schumann

Johannes Brahms is considered the greatest composer of the Romantic period. Being the son of a musician and forced to play music to earn money for the family bills, Johannes grew a very strong connection to music and eventually made music and composing for his entire career. Johannes Brahms was viewed as the leader of music and best at composing in the Romantic time period while on the same skilled level as Mozart, Beethoven, and Hyden. Johannes Brahms was born May 7th, 1833 in Hamburg, Germany…

recognized by Joachim, whom took a liking to the new musician. Joachim had Brahm play for Clara and Robert Schumann, who endorsed Brahm claiming in the New Magazine for Music Brahms to be next great composer, ”called forth to give the ideal…

pianist of the romantic period. He was born in Hamburg into a Lutheran family. He spent most of his life in Vienna, Austria. Johannes composed symphony orchestra,chamber ensembles, piano, organ,and voice chorus. He worked with a pianist named Clara schumann and a violinist named Joseph Joachim and they were very close friends. His father’s name was Johann Jakob Brahms and he lives from 1806-1872. Johann Johannes father lived in Heidi in Holstein. Like Johannes he became a musician and he did…

regular education. Wieck helped Clara a lot, she was a father in ability, but a manager when it comes to learning music”Friedrich sometimes behaved cruelly towards her, but Clara considered his strictness a blessing because it made her a more solid musician”. Another man who greatly impacted her life was Robert Schuman, her love of her life. Robert Schuman was too a composer and had the same love for music, but according to Clara’s father “Wieck loathed the idea of Clara, the supreme achievement…

analytical evidences to show to be mature as a master of symphonic genre and the historical evidences after the first symphony for his second symphony. In addition, the last body mentions regarding the effect from the aggressive participating of Clara Schumann and many positive comments from friends about the Brahms’ second symphony with Brahms’ letters, Clara’s letters and friends’…

Extra Credit On September 30th I attended my second SWIC Music Recital at the Schmidt Art Center. The venue for the afternoon recital was held in the same gallery room as my first experience. The rooms plain walls were adorned with art of varying mediums, in the front of the hall sat a white grand piano on parquet floors, played by Professor Gail Long, the only accompaniment for the day’s performers. This recital difference from the first event was rather than professors performing for…

Robert Schumann was a German composer and critic born in Zwickau on June 8, 1810. A quirky, problematic genius, he wrote some of the greatest music of the Romantic era, and also some of the weakest. Severely affected by what was most likely bipolar disorder, he…

Johannes Brahms’ Clarinet Quintet in B minor, opus 115, was composed in Bad Ischl during the summer of 1891. It should be noted that in 1890, Brahms concluded that he would no longer compose. In the same summer of completing the Quintet, Brahms composes his Clarinet Trio, opus 114. These two works for clarinet would be his last contributions to chamber music. Prior to the Brahms Quintet, other works written for chamber clarinet included the opus 34 of Weber, opus 107 by Anton Reicha and the A…

Have you ever heard someone play the piano and wondered how the piano made all that noise? Or how it was created in the first place? Well, you’re about to find out the answer to both these questions and more. What came before the piano? What inspired the piano? And who created the piano? All of these will also be answered. First, you’ll need to know that a keyboard instrument is any musical instrument on which different notes can be sounded by pressing a series of keys, push buttons, or…

Victor Herbert (1859-1924). At age 19 he had played as a cellist with every major orchestra in Germany. He was one of the greatest influences on American theater, bringing it from vaudeville to more operatic, story-based works. His first composition which showed he was a reputable composer was his Suite for Cello and Orchestra, Op.3. Herbert’s works were known for their mix of European Romanticism and American Tradition. He also worked as the composer of the first original background film score…