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, ...

(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 ...

The remarkable pianist and composer was a true pioneer who had a profound impact on the history of music. Here's everything you need to know about her life and work – with a look ahead to London ...

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 ...

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 ...

In honor of the bicentennial of Romantic composer Robert Schumann, Bates College artist-in-residence Frank Glazer performs some of the composer’s best-loved piano pieces at 3 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 5, in ...

This week sees the 70th anniversary of composer of the week, which originally launched on 2 August 1943 and is one of the longest running programmes in radio history. On Friday 2 of August, Donald ...

Just how crazy was Robert Schumann? He was, without doubt, a peculiar and troubled composer who had suicidal tendencies and ended his days institutionalized. Then again, he was a quintessential 19th ...

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 ...