Noun
German romantic composer known for piano music and songs (1810-1856)
Source: WordNetIt's rather splendid to think of all those great men and women who appear to have presented symptoms that allow us to describe them as bipolar. Whether it's Hemingway, Van Gogh... Robert Schumann has been mentioned... Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Plath... some of them with rather grim ends. Stephen Fry
Antonín Dvořák ’s cello concerto ranks among the supreme examples from the Romantic era while Robert Schumann 's focuses on the lyrical qualities of the instrument. Source: Internet
Legacy Birthplace of Robert Schumann in Zwickau in 2005 The East Germany 1956 Schumann/Schubert error: Schubert's music is on the top stamp, and Schumann's on the bottom 1960 Russian Post stamp marking the 150th anniversary of Schumann's birth. Source: Internet
At age fourteen she wrote her piano concerto, with some help from Robert Schumann, and performed it at age sixteen at the Leipzig Gewandhaus with Mendelssohn conducting. Source: Internet
Brahms and the Schumanns At some time before 1853 when Robert Schumann had been in Hamburg, Brahms sent to him a packet of scores of his compositions, but at that point the name Brahms was unfamiliar to Schumann, and he had returned the packet unopened. Source: Internet
Cairns – Berlioz vol. 2, p. 98 At one point, Robert Schumann was motivated to publish a detailed rebuttal of one of Fétis' attacks on Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique in his own Neue Zeitschrift für Musik journal. Source: Internet