Schumann began as a composer for piano and wrote for it solely from 1830 until 1840. Kreisleriana - his most demanding piano piece - was dedicated to renowned pianist, and future wife, Clara.

All this week, we'll be focusing our lens on the music of Robert Schumann and the lasting impact of his work. Leading the conversation is pianist Jonathan Biss, who's making a 30-concert project out ...

Clara Schumann was a German composer-pianist of the 19th century. Although her composition was respected during her life, after her death she was mostly remembered as a pianist until a revival of her ...

How the composer moved from riotously original piano music to the light-footed symphony that made his name. By Phil Hebblethwaite For years before Robert Schumann completed his First Symphony in 1841, ...

A colleague whom I rode the elevator with on Thursday night, as I was heading to Alice Tully Hall to hear the pianist Christian Zacharias, asked me why he’s among my favorite living musicians. I ...

(For our week dedicated to Robert Schumann, pianist Jonathan Biss defends this misunderstood composer in the first of three essays. Click the audio link above to hear him play Schumann and discuss the ...

Robert Schumann’s early training was focused towards his ambition to become a celebrated concert pianist, but a hand injury quickly put that career option out of reach. Schumann turned instead to ...

He was an ambivalent genius and a manic-depressive whose tragic end colored our perception of his works. Only in recent years has the music world come to better understand Robert Schumann's creative ...

Over the past decade, Maurizio Pollini’s recitals in Boston have brought few surprises. The Italian pianist has hewed to the canon rather than delving into the 20th-century fare he once recorded so ...

There are no special T-shirts on sale as swag for the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s “Schumann Focus” festival, the way there have been for Gustavo Dudamel’s Beethoven and Mahler symphony cycles at Walt ...

Listen to host Scott Yoo, cellist Bion Tsang and producer Michael Fine discuss how other composers and musicians changed the works of Schumann. My wife's roommate from college, Josephine Knight, ...