Clara Schuman Impact On Society

Mademoiselle Reisz understood what it means to be an artist. She was an “artist at the piano” (Chopin 554). Mademoiselle Reisz was isolated from society. She lived alone with practically no friends, except Robert and Edna. Her proprietor described her as “the most disagreeable and unpopular woman” (Chopin 580). Mademoiselle Reisz defied society’s convention. She devoted herself entirely to art; as a result, she became ostracized from society (Koloski 119). She plays music, not for others, but for herself. She told Edna that she was “the only

Vaughan learned her trade of music, like many musicians of her day, in church. Her mother, the organist, taught her to play and by the age of 12 she was the alternate for her mother. (Giddins) Little did her church family know that this little girl would grow up to be the

Ethel Smyth, composer and outspoken Suffragette, was born in 1858. Her middle-class English family opposed her ambition to study music in Germany, thinking her goal of becoming a professional musician unladylike. Her father eventually allowed her to study composition in Leipzig, but only after she waged a campaign of protest that included a hunger strike and self-imposed isolation. Her seventy-two compositions include six operas, and works for orchestra, chorus, and chamber ensembles. Later in life, she was afflicted by deafness, a malady that afflicted both Beethoven and Smetana. She died in 1944.

Clara Barton was born on December 25, 1821 in Massachusetts. She was born into a family of four, two brothers and two sisters. Her parents were Stephan and Sarah Barton, a militia man and a home maker. Stephan was a non-commissioned officer in the French and Indian Wars, which made his soilder habits and tastes hard to dismiss. He had a love for horses and became one of the first to introduce blooded stocks, with large lands in England, he raised his own colts and highlanders. He told Clara many war stories, he even drew maps, made models of battles and explained war strategies. Some of her first memories are of thunder storm which looked like a whole heaven full of angry rams , marching down upon her.1

Do you ever think a teacher could be a nurse in a war, and start something to help thousands of people? Well that's what Clara did and she was very successful. She was a nurse for most of the Civil War and sometime after. After the Civil War Clara was caring to look for soldiers who gone missing to reunite with their families. One trip to Europe inspired Clara to start what we know as today the American Red Cross.

Marian had been born on February 27th, 1897, in Philadelphia. Marian was just 6 years old when she became a choir member at the Union Baptist Church, where she got the nickname “Baby Contralto.” Anderson was the oldest out of her family of three girls. When turning eight, she had received her first piano from her father who was a coal and ice digger. At the time her family was unable to pay for her to have any kind of vocal or piano lessons so she was forced to teach herself. At the age of 12, her father had died, leaving her mother to take care of the family of three girls with no job. This however did not slow down any of her musical ambition. Anderson's commitment and her range as a singer, so impressed the rest of the choir that the church had decided to band together and raise about 500 dollars. About

She also wanted to create a children's choir. “ She had always loved music since she was little. That's why she created

The 19th century was an era of change. There were lots of progression in technology, science, and philosophy that gradually turned European society away from the past centuries. Women’s status in the 19th century Europe also changed. Many of the 19th century women were able to have a profession as they received higher and wider education, and also allowed to have more participation in society. In the musical life of 19th century Europe, numbers of women were able to perform and compose as good and men.

“I may be compelled to face danger, but never fear it, and while our soldiers can stand and fight, I can stand and feed and nurse them,” Clara Barton once said. She was always quick to help others, and put their lives before her own. She wasn’t very talkative, but she was very generous. Barton was named “The Angel of The Battlefield” she got this name while she was considering having an escort and months after he has been her escort that’s what she got named. Clara would make sure she gave the soldiers the correct care they needed. Clara Barton changed the health for many.

In 1824, rather than learning the alphabet or her numbers, Clara started studying piano, violin, singing, music theory, harmony, composition, and counterpoint primarily under the instruction of her father.

In a male dominated society, women were believed to be fragile weaklings that depended on men in order to survive and find happiness. In fact, they were seen as nothing more than selfless wives and mothers. The seemingly “perfect wife” then, was characterized by her dutifulness and obedient demeanor. This notion of male supremacy was undoubtedly the predominant basis of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Rendered unable to voice their own opinions, women then turned to pen and paper as a way to communicate their thoughts. From this, arose the following pieces: Kate Chopin’s short story “The Story of an Hour,” Emily Dickinson’s poem “She rose to His Requirement - dropt,” Susan Glaspell’s play Trifles, and Zora Neale Hurston’s novel

Women’s music came from radical, grassroots origins in the 1970s thanks to contributions by brave women, mostly lesbians (Mosbacher, 2002). These women used non-violent, peaceful force to forge their own way into the music industry. It was a peaceful yet political revolution of togetherness and liberation. It brought together women of different backgrounds who produced easy-listening, mellow harmonies played with lyrics filled with tumultuous

Cecile Mclorin Salvant was born in August 28, 1989 in Miami, Florida. She was raised by her father, who was Haitian, and her mother, who was French. Her mother is now president of the French immersion school in Miami, Florida. Cecile began practicing music at the age of five by taking classes on how to play classical piano which later in life as a musician helped her ear musically and exposed deeper levels of classical music. Both her parents were very supportive in her interest for music. She didn’t starting singing until the age of eight and she eventually became interested in classical singing. By the age of thirteen, Savant had a classical voice teacher named Ana Maria Conte Silva. Savant’s father could also sing but did not pursue a career a singer. When she took a few classes at the University of Miami,

“Helft mir, ihr Schwestern” is song number five from Robert Schumann’s song cycle Frauenliebe und –leben. The song cycle was set to the text of a poem cycle of the same name by Adelbert von Chamisso. Each poem in the cycle provides a glimpse into the story of a woman falling in love with a man, getting engaged and married to him, getting pregnant and having a child, becoming a widow and finally sharing her life story with her granddaughter. At the time that Schumann wrote this song cycle, he was going through a legal battle with his future wife’s father over the right to marry her. This poem cycle contains themes of love, devotion, and longing that Schumann could personally relate with his feelings for Clara Wieck, who would soon become Clara Schumann. In this essay, I will demonstrate how Frauenliebe und-leben is directly reflective of Robert Schumann’s own life experiences. In so doing, I will be analyzing the ways in which Schumann set the music in a fashion that emphasized the structure and emotional content of the poetry.

Her father played piano, guitar, and harmonica; her mother played piano and sang. Her brothers and sisters all played piano and sang in the church choir, gospel groups, glee clubs and social events. She started learning music the natural way by watching her family. The Waymon’s owned a pedal organ, and by the time Eunice was tall enough to climb on the stool and sit on the keyboard, she had musical talent.