- Fact 2 - Date of Birth: Schumann was
born on June 8,1810
- Fact 3 - Place of Birth: Zwickau,
Germany
- Fact 4 - Full Name: Robert
Alexander Schumann
- Fact 5 - Lifespan: 1810-1856
- Fact 6 - Name of mother and father:
His parents names were August Schumann and Johanna Christiane
Schnabel. Robert Schumann was one of five children
- Fact 7 - Family background: Both of
his parents and his sister suffered from mental health problems
and his sister committed suicide
- Fact 8 - His father was a wealthy
bookseller, publisher, and novelist so he had a strong literary
and musical background
- Fact 9 - Childhood and education:
Robert Schumann received music and piano lessons at the age of
seven from Baccalaureus Kuntzsch who was a teacher at the
Zwickau high school
- Fact 10 - He went on to
study law but quickly decided to pursue a musical career
- Fact 11 - Robert Schumann fused
literary ideas with musical ones – known as Program Music
- Fact 12 - Robert Schumann married
the pianist and composer Clara Wieck Schumann on 12 September
1840, despite strong opposition from her father. They had eight
children
- Fact 13 - Robert Schumann met
Mendelssohn and
Brahms
in Germany
- Fact 14 - After an attempted
suicide, Robert Schumann was confined to a mental institution
- Fact 15 - He lived out
his final days at the mental institution
- Fact 16 - Date of Death: He died on
July 29, 1856
- Fact 17 - Robert Schumann wrote vocal and piano works,
orchestral works and chamber music
- Fact 18 - His music lives on and
the musical works of Schumann include the following:
- Op. 2, Papillons
Piano Concerto in A minor
Arabesque in C Major
Op. 18, Child Falling Asleep
Traumerei
The Happy Peasant
Die Davidbundlertanze
Liederkreis
Dichterliebe
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