MUSIC 1AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Clara Schumann, Friedrich Wieck, Robert Schumann
20 Jan 2016
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Introduction: clara schumann and the piano in the romantic period: clara schumann and carnaval. Clara schumann was an advocate of her husband, robert"s, music. The piano was the most prominent solo instrument of the. Romantic period and was particularly associated with the virtuosity of franz liszt together through literary theme and musical material. Carnaval is a series of piano pieces (character pieces) linked: clara schumann and carnaval (cont. , clara schumann (1819 1896) Character pieces were short and often lyrical piano pieces. Individual pieces in carnaval are associated with schumann"s intended for both private and public performance; composed by. Schumann, mendelssohn, schubert, brahms, and others acquaintances, composers he admired, and figures from. Carnival; the set imagines all characters are present at a masked ball. Child prodigy who studied with her father, friedrich wieck, and made her official debut at the leipzig gewandhaus at the age of eleven.
