The Best of Schumann

Robert Schumann (8 June 1810 – 29 July 1856) was a German composer, pianist, and influential music critic. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest composers of the Romantic era. Schumann left the study of law, intending to pursue a career as a virtuoso pianist. 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 then focused his musical energies on composing.

In 1840, after a long and acrimonious legal battle with Wieck, who opposed the marriage, Schumann married Wieck's daughter Clara. Before their marriage, Clara—also a composer—had substantially supported her father through her considerable career as a pianist. Together, Clara and Robert encouraged, and maintained a close relationship with, German composer Johannes Brahms.

Until 1840, Schumann wrote exclusively for the piano. Later, he composed piano and orchestral works, many Lieder (songs for voice and piano). He composed four symphonies, one opera, and other orchestral, choral, and chamber works. His best-known works include Carnaval, Symphonic Studies, Kinderszenen, Kreisleriana, and the Fantasie in C. His writings about music appeared mostly in the Neue Zeitschrift für Musik (New Journal for Music), a Leipzig-based publication that he co-founded.

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. After a suicide attempt in 1854, Schumann was admitted at his own request to a mental asylum in Endenich near Bonn. Diagnosed with psychotic melancholia, he died two years later at the age of 46 without recovering from his mental illness.

Robert Schumann

Tracklist:
Peças de Fantasia, Op. 12
1. À Noitinha
2. Vôo
3. Por Quê?
4. Caprichos
5. De Noite
6. Fábula
7. Sonhos Turbulentos
8. Fim do Canto
9. Arabesque em Dó Maior, Op. 18

Cenas Infantis, Op. 15
10. De Povos e Terras Distantes
11. História Curiosa
12. Cabra-Cega
13. Criança Suplicante
14. Felicidade Perfeita
15. Grande Acontecimento
16. Devaneios
17. À Lareira
18. Cavaleiro do Cavalo-de-Pau
19. Quase Sério Demais
20. Meter Medo
21. Criança Dormindo
22. Fala o Poeta

Cenas da Floresta, Op. 82
23. Entrada
24. Flores Solitárias
25. Pássaro Profeta
26. Despedida

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