The next woman in our line of female composers is Clara Schumann. She might be the most famous of the early women pioneers in classical music. Nannerl Mozart was not allowed to play in public after a ...

Listen to host Scott Yoo, cellist Bion Tsang and producer Michael Fine discuss how other composers and musicians changed the works of Schumann. My wife's roommate from college, Josephine Knight, ...

All this week, we'll be focusing our lens on the music of Robert Schumann and the lasting impact of his work. Leading the conversation is pianist Jonathan Biss, who's making a 30-concert project out ...

Early in Joseph W. Polisi’s book “American Muse: The Life and Times of William Schuman” (2008) he cites a sweeping critical claim about his subject, the American composer and educator whose centennial ...

Robert Schumann's life was a roller coaster of success and plight. See how his music mirros his personal life during the Houston Symphony's Schumann Festival: Angels and Demons. Credit: Photo from ...

The contest, held by a musicians’ committee “to aid Spanish democracy,” was over. The prize had gone to a young, unknown composer, William Schuman, for his Second Symphony. But the promised ...

“I’m a composer,” says William Schuman, “and I’m also an administrator. I can’t imagine a life when I couldn’t do both—or each.” Last week Schuman was doing both. As president of Manhattan’s Lincoln ...

(For our week dedicated to Robert Schumann, pianist Jonathan Biss defends this misunderstood composer in the first of three essays. Click the audio link above to hear him play Schumann and discuss the ...

Swiss composer and oboist Heinz Holliger has never actually heard one of the pieces that most deeply affected him as an artist. Holliger’s new disc, “Aschenmusik,” contains the second recording of his ...

Listen to host Scott Yoo, cellist Bion Tsang and producer Michael Fine discuss how other composers and musicians changed the works of Schumann. Great Performances is available to stream on pbs.org and ...