Schumann, Robert

Cultural  

1. A nineteenth-century German romantic composer (see romanticism). Schumann's best-remembered compositions are his piano pieces, including “Traumerei” and “The Happy Farmer,” and his songs.

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Example Sentences

Eugene Drucker, Roberta Cooper and Beth Levin join forces for piano trios by three composers whose lives and music were inextricably linked: Clara Schumann, Robert Schumann and Johannes Brahms.

From New York Times • Aug. 22, 2019

Schumann, Robert, boyhood of, xiv, 111; death of, xiv, 349; Heinrich Heine and, xiv, 117; as a piano-player, viii, 173; personality of, xiv, 335; Schubert and, xiv, 126; Clara Wieck and, xiv, 121.

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