It rarely bodes well when an administrator appears onstage before an opera or recital, but on Friday night at Weill Recital Hall, Jeremy Geffen, Carnegie Hall's director of artistic planning, announced that Erin Morley had decided to perform despite being ill. Ms. Morley, a notable young coloratura soprano who is currently singing the Rhinemaiden...
In the six years since its formation the Escher String Quartet has been checking off all the boxes expected of a rising ensemble. Good conservatory? The original members all completed their studies at the Manhattan School of Music. Prestigious summer plans? The new group was quickly invited to take part in Pinchas Zukerman's and Itzhak Perlman's...
With so much unaccompanied violin music of Bach on New York stages in recent days -- Gidon Kremer played the Chaconne last Saturday and Jennifer Koh the six sonatas and partitas on Sunday -- Christian Tetzlaff might have felt like the odd man out at Alice Tully Hall on Wednesday evening. Mr. Tetzlaff devoted his recital to sonatas by Schumann,...
Han var gift med pianisten og komponisten Clara Schumann.
Hans klaverstykker og sange hører til de mest opfindsomme og poetiske fra den tid.
Efter et nervesammenbrud i 1851 komponerede han kun lidt, og han døde som sindssyg.
Han skrev klaverværker: Arabeske, Papillons, Kreisleriana, Faschingsschwank aus Wien, Carnaval (op. 9) (1839), Abegg Variationen, Kinderszenen (op. 15) 1838, Albums für die Jugend og Davidsbündlertänze.
Fire symfonier: Symfoni nr. 1 opus 38 "Forårssymfonien" (1841), Nr 5: Ouverture, Scherzo og Finale. Introduktion og Allegro. Opera: Genoveva. Märchenbilder, Scener fra Goethes Faust, Requiem für Mignon, Das Paradies und die Peri, Der Rose Pilgerfahrt. Romancer
og ballader. 250 sange: Dichterliebe opus 48, Frauenliebe und Leben, Widmung opus 25 nr. 1 (1840). Liederkreis. Klaverkoncert opus 54 (1841/45).
Hans violinkoncert fra 1853 blev først opført i 1937. Fold ud