Another suggestion is that the injury was a side-effect of syphilis medication. One suggested cause of this injury is that he damaged his finger by the use of a mechanical device designed to strengthen the weakest fingers, a device which held back one finger while he exercised the others. In July he wrote to his mother, "My whole life has been a struggle between Poetry and Prose, or call it Music and Law." By Christmas he was back in Leipzig, taking piano lessons from his old master Wieck, who assured him that he would be a successful concert pianist.ĭuring his studies with Wieck, Schumann permanently injured his right hand. (See also: Corps) 1830–34ĭuring Eastertide 1830 he heard Italian violinist, violist, guitarist, and composer Niccolò Paganini play in Frankfurt. In 1829 his law studies continued in Heidelberg, where he became a lifelong member of Corps Saxo-Borussia Heidelberg. In 1828 he left school, and after a tour during which he met Heinrich Heine in Munich, he went to Leipzig to study law. His father, however, who had encouraged the boy's musical aspirations, died in 1826 when Schumann was 16, and neither his mother nor his guardian thereafter encouraged a career in music. Schumann's interest in music was kindled when he was a child by the performance of Ignaz Moscheles playing at Karlsbad, and he later developed an interest in the works of Ludwig van Beethoven, Franz Schubert and Felix Mendelssohn. His most powerful and permanent literary inspiration was Jean Paul, a German writer whose influence is seen in Schumann's youthful novels Juniusabende, completed in 1826, and Selene. Īt age 14, Schumann wrote an essay on the aesthetics of music and also contributed to a volume, edited by his father, titled "Portraits of Famous Men." While still at school in Zwickau, he read the works of the German poet-philosophers Friedrich Schiller and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, as well as Byron and the Greek tragedians. Schumann began to compose before the age of seven, but his boyhood was spent in the cultivation of literature as much as music – undoubtedly influenced by his father, August Schumann, a bookseller, publisher, and novelist. Schumann was born in Zwickau, Saxony, the fifth and last child of the family. House where Robert Schumann was born in 1810 In 1840, after a long and acrimonious legal battle with his piano instructor (Wieck), Schumann married Wieck's daughter, pianist Clara Wieck, who also composed music and had a considerable concert career.įor the last two years of his life, after an attempted suicide, Robert Schumann was confined to a mental institution at his own request. His writings about music appeared mostly in the Neue Zeitschrift für Musik ("New Journal for Music"), a Leipzig-based publication that he jointly founded. Schumann's published compositions were written exclusively for the piano until 1840 he later composed works for piano and orchestra many lieder (songs for voice and piano) four symphonies an opera and other orchestral, choral, and chamber works. However, when a hand injury prevented those hopes from being realized, he decided to focus his musical energies on composition.
Schumann's intention was to pursue a career as a virtuoso pianist, having been assured by his teacher, Friedrich Wieck, that he could become the finest pianist in Europe after only a few years of study with him. Robert Schumann, sometimes known as Robert Alexander Schumann, (8 June 1810 – 29 July 1856) was a German composer, aesthete and influential music critic.
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