Schumann was born in Zwickau, in the Kingdom of Saxony (today Central Germany), the fifth and last child of Johanna Christiane (née Schnabel) and August Schumann. Diagnosed with psychotic melancholia, he died of pneumonia two years later at the age of 46, without recovering from his mental illness.īiography Early life Schumann's birth house, now the Robert Schumann House, after an anonymous colourized lithograph After a suicide attempt in 1854, Schumann was admitted at his own request to a mental asylum in Endenich (now in Bonn). What is now thought to have been a combination of bipolar disorder and perhaps mercury poisoning led to "manic" and "depressive" periods in Schumann's compositional productivity. Schumann suffered from a mental disorder that first manifested in 1833 as a severe melancholic depressive episode-which recurred several times alternating with phases of "exaltation" and increasingly also delusional ideas of being poisoned or threatened with metallic items. ![]() These characters bled into his editorial writing in the Neue Zeitschrift für Musik (New Journal for Music), a Leipzig-based publication that he co-founded. Schumann was known for infusing his music with characters through motifs, as well as references to works of literature. His best-known works include Carnaval, Symphonic Studies, Kinderszenen, Kreisleriana, and the Fantasie in C. He composed four symphonies, one opera, and other orchestral, choral, and chamber works. Later, he composed piano and orchestral works, and many Lieder (songs for voice and piano). Until 1840, Schumann wrote exclusively for the piano. Clara and Robert also developed a close relationship with German composer Johannes Brahms. A lifelong partnership in music began, as Clara herself was an established pianist and music prodigy. In 1840, Schumann married Friedrich Wieck's daughter Clara Wieck, after a long and acrimonious legal battle with Friedrich, who opposed the marriage. Schumann then focused his musical energies on composing. His teacher, Friedrich Wieck, a German pianist, had assured him that he could become the finest pianist in Europe, but a hand injury ended this dream. Schumann left the study of law, intending to pursue a career as a virtuoso pianist. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest composers of the Romantic era. The work, which was premièred by the Engegård Quartet in 2014, is based on the second movement, Allegro di molto, of Felix Mendelssohns String Quartet, Op.?44 No.2.Robert Schumann ( German: 8 June 1810 – 29 July 1856) was a German composer, pianist, and influential music critic. On its first release on BIS the quartet also includes Felix Remix by Olav Anton Thommessen. Formed in 2006, the Engegård Quartet has become one of the most sought-after ensembles in Norway and has also received international recognition. The often used 'nickname' Voces intimae is often taken to refer to the intimate interchange between the four voices in a quartet, but is probably a more specific allusion to a brief passage in the third movement: Sibelius wrote the remark into a score some time after the work had been published. He embarked on it at a critical point in his career, following the completion of the Third Symphony and during a stage of increased introspection and greater thematic concentration. Some thirty years later, when Jean Sibelius composed his D minor quartet Op.56, he too had previous experience of writing for the medium, but Op.56 is the only quartet among his mature works. This caused some reviewers to criticize the quartet as being unidiomatic, while others, including Liszt, greeted it with enthusiasm. In 1878, while composing it, Grieg wrote that it aims at breadth, to soar, and, above all, at vigorous sound, and the amplitude of the sound is indeed striking: the generous use of double-stops creates an almost orchestral effect, unusual for the genre. In the case of Edvard Grieg, a string quartet was in fact among the very first works that he presented after having finished his studies in 1861, but the Quartet in G minor, Op.27, was the only such work to be published in his lifetime. ![]() It is striking that the two Nordic string quartets that have received the greatest international attention and have the firmest foothold in the repertoire come from composers whose reputations rests on their achievements in other genres than chamber music.
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