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Robert Schumann 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.
Zwickau (German pronunciation: [ˈtsvɪkaʊ]; is, with around 87,500 inhabitants, the fourth-largest city of Saxony after Leipzig, Dresden and Chemnitz and it is the seat of the Zwickau District. The West Saxon city is situated in the valley of the Zwickau Mulde, and lies in a string of cities sitting in the densely populated foreland of the Elster and Ore Mountains stretching from Plauen in the southwest via Zwickau, Chemnitz and Freiberg to Dresden in the northeast. From 1834 until 1952, Zwickau was the seat of the government of the south-western region of Saxony.
The Symphony in C major by German composer Robert Schumann was published in 1847 as his Symphony No. 2, Op. 61, although it was the third symphony he had completed, counting the B-flat major symphony published as No. 1 in 1841, and the original version of his D minor symphony of 1841. It is dedicated to Oscar I, king of Sweden and Norway.
Frankenthal is a municipality in eastern Saxony, Germany. It belongs to the district of Bautzen and lies west of the eponymous city. It is named after Frankish colonists who settled in Lusatia ca. 1200.
The Robert Schumann International Competition for Pianists and Singers was constituted in 1956 in East Berlin within the framework of the commemorations on the 100th anniversary of Robert Schumann's death. A second edition was organized on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the composer's birth, and three years later a third edition was arranged in Zwickau, his birthplace. The competition, a member of the World Federation of International Music Competitions, has taken place in Zwickau every 3 or 4 years since.
Karl Emanuel Klitzsch, or often just Emanuel Klitzsch, was a German composer, organist and music critic. He was a friend of Robert Schumann and promoted his works. He was for many years director of music in Zwickau, teacher at the Zwickau Gymnasium and writer for the Neue Zeitschrift für Musik. As composer he used the name Emanuel Kronach.
Robert Schumann House is a museum in Zwickau in Germany. The composer Robert Schumann was born here in 1810; it now houses a large collection relating to the composer.
Dreaming is a 1944 German historical musical drama film directed by Harald Braun and starring Hilde Krahl, Mathias Wieman and Friedrich Kayssler. It portrays the lives of the pianist Clara Schumann and her composer husband Robert Schumann.
The Robert Schumann Prize of the City of Zwickau is a classical music award. Since 1964 it has been awarded by the Lord Mayor of Zwickau. Robert Schumann was born in Zwickau. Between 1964 and 2002 the prize was awarded annually, since 2003 biennially. The award is given to outstanding singers, instrumentalists and ensembles as well as musicologists and musical institutions, who have rendered special service (sic) to cherishing and presenting Schumann’s musical and literary heritage as well as to the knowledge of his life and works. The prize is endowed with a total of €10,000. The winners receive a certificate and a bronze medal with the portrait of Schumann, created by the sculptor Gerhard Lichtenfeld.
Symphony in G minor ("Zwickau"), WoO29 is an unfinished symphony by Robert Schumann, written between October 1832 and May 1833.
Marie-Elisabeth Hecker is a German cellist. In 2005 she was one of the youngest participants to win first prize at the Concours de violoncelle Rostropovitch, the most important cello competition held every four years in Paris.
Georg Eismann was a German musicologist. After 1945, this music teacher at the Gymnasium Dresden-Plauen took over as the second director of the Robert Schumann House in Zwickau.
Martin Karl Hermann Schoppe was a German musicologist and painter.
Janina Klassen is a German musicologist and professor at the Hochschule für Musik Freiburg.
Ulf Wallin is a Swedish classical violinist.
Gisela Schäfer née Rausch was a German internist. On her initiative, the Robert Schumann Society was founded on 20 March 1979 in Düsseldorf.
Dieter-Gerhardt Worm is a German conductor. From 1974 until 1993, Worm was music director of the Robert Schumann Philharmonic Orchestra in Chemnitz for almost two decades.
Michael Struck is a German musicologist, music critic and pianist. Together with Reinhard Kapp Struck won the 2009 Robert Schumann Prize of the City of Zwickau for his 1984 thesis on Schumann's late work.
Olga Vladimirovna Loseva is a Russian musicologist. She works as a lecturer in music theory at the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory.
Thomas Synofzik is a German musicologist. He is director of the Robert Schumann House in Zwickau.
References
- ↑ Schumann Gesellschaft Zwickau. "Robert-Schumann-Preis Zwickau (Preisträger)" (in German). Retrieved 23 April 2019.
