In the summer of 1830, the 20-year-old Robert Schumann abruptly ended his law studies at Heidelberg University and decided to become a musician. His mother arranged a musical apprenticeship with Friedrich Wieck in Leipzig, and the 11-year-old Clara Wieck writes

Robert Schumann’s Advice to Young Musicians was originally written in 1848 to accompany his famous, and still very popular, Album for the Young, a suite of piano pieces for children and students. Schumann was a remarkable, forward-looking man, not least

“Minors of the Majors” invites you to discover compositions by the great classical composers that for one reason or another have not reached the musical mainstream. Please enjoy, and keep listening!

On 14 October 1850, Robert and Clara Schumann played host to Mary Potts and her husband John Perkins in Düsseldorf. The visiting couple had married in New York just months early, and was looking to spend their honeymoon in Europe.

“Minors of the Majors” invites you to discover compositions by the great classical composers that for one reason or another have not reached the musical mainstream. Please enjoy, and keep listening! Robert and Clara Schumann had eight children, all born

Piano Trio No. 3 in G Minor, Op. 110: III. Rasch From Schumann: Violin Concerto (2015) Released by Harmonia Mundi Schumann: Piano Trio No. 3 in G Minor, Op. 110: III. RaschThis first volume in a trilogy comprising the complete

When Robert Schumann premiered his secular oratorio Das Paradies und die Peri, Op. 50 (Paradise and the Peri) in December 1843 in Leipzig, the composer was instantly catapulted from provincial to international fame. In the first decade after the composition,

Davidsbundlertanze, Op. 6 No. 18. Nicht schnell From SCHUMANN, R.: Carnaval / Davidsbündlertänze / Papillons (Giltburg) (2015) Released by Naxos Schumann: Davidsbundlertanze, Op. 6 – No. 18. Nicht schnellThe three works on this recording are collections of short pieces, strung