23h 57min, sep 12, 1810 y - Robert Schumann
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Wrote approximately 250 songs and set 60 poets
He was the most literary and well-read composer of the late 18th and early 19th centuries
His father was a book dealer and he read extensively; he founded a book club when he was 15.
Schumann worked on only one genre at a time
For the first decade of his career he composed music for the piano, much of it having a literally association; he considered himself somewhat of a tone-poet, in that the essence of the music is the mood or non-verbal message established (Der Dichter spricht)
In 1834, by his late 20’s he had funded Neue Zeitschrift fur Musik, a journal that included musical critics
In it, he used several different personas form which to write
Florestan and Eusebius are the most common. These personas are used in his songs
In 1839, he was secretly engaged to concert pianist Clara Wieck; her father was vehemently opposed to their union, mainly because Schumann didn't have the sufficient income to support her,
Married in 1840
Since their courtship began in 1835, she had been a catalyst for his composing
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