Who Is Robert Schumann?

While Ludwig van Beethoven and Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky have much in common, they also have many differences. Both men are famous for their orchestral compositions and their future influence on other composers. They experienced a blend of horrible failures and great successes. Although they were from different musical time periods, they both made huge contributions to the world of music.

Robert is a sportswriter and a broadcast journalist who is also known for his young adult novels. He was born in 1938 in the Bronx. Throughout his childhood, he would’ve described himself as a “puke.” He was bullied and felt like an outcast. He earned his Bachelor’s degree in English from Columbia University at only 19 years of age. He also received his Master’s degree in journalism. When Lipsyte was a reporter and writer for The New

He is a man who appreciates nature and working on his motorcycle. Robert can’t help but to over analyze every aspect of life which leads to him being more unlikeable. The reader picks up on an inner turmoil with Robert where his soul seems to be subject to torture. “But he saw a stick and ailing thing happening and he started cutting deep, deeper and deeper to get to the root of it...but he took on so much and went so far in the end his real victim was himself” (Pirseg 93). This torture spawns from his not being able to understand how he is suppose to help his son conquer mental illness, when he himself can’t fully conquer his own insanity. He knows his son is doomed for the same fate he has suffered. Robert constantly wants to fix things by applying philosophical ideas towards them, but is frustrated when he can’t solve his son’s problems this way.

Some of you may ask, “Why? Why choose Louis Armstrong out of every composer out there?” Well there 's a few reasons why I believe Louis Armstrong is one of the top composers and should be known. To understand where I am coming from, it is best to understand him and how he came to be what he is today and see how he achieved his greatness throughout his lifetime. Some are fast to judge him without even knowing a single piece of music he had created. Little do many of you know you have heard of his music’s before but did not know who compose it, basically paid little attention to it. One of his most famous song compose is “What A Wonderful World”. Many of you have heard it through classical movie, it was inserted in one of America 's favorite

Robert Schumann lived, died, and spent the majority of his long–lived, successful life in Germany; from 1810, until about 1856. He had originally studied law, but had left to become quite prominent as a composer, as well as a pianist, and was even an influential music critic of his time. He was and still is widely regarded as one of the greatest composers of the Romantic era. Schumann left the study of law, intending to pursue a career as a virtuoso pianist. He had been assured by his teacher Friedrich Wieck that he could become the finest pianist in Europe, but a hand injury ended this dream. Schumann then focused his musical energies on composing.

Robert Lebrun: Robert is 26 year old man. It is said that he devotes himself to a different, usually married, woman

His mind was under a great mental strain due to parental and campaigning for war bonds. Ives progressed in his life because of his confidence, but World War 1 “brought a swift and immediate and total smashing of a thought pattern.”(16 perry). In 1918, he realized that he does not have the strength and inspiration to compose music. “Around the end of 1926, as his wife recalled, “he came downstairs one day with tears in his eyes, and said he couldn’t seem to compose any more- nothing went well, nothing sounded right(109 Rossiter).” But, he did write a few songs in 1920 and 1921 but almost none of his songs were published after

Prior to Robert’s arrival, the narrator hints at a tense relationship between his wife and himself. He mentions his wife’s past suicide attempt but gives vague details and little emotion to the telling, saying simply that she was “lonely” and that her former husband came home from “somewhere” and

Clara Schumann and Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel are considered possibly the most important female figures of the Romantic Era. Both women were friends living with the struggles of trying to make a name for themselves as musicians and composers while living in the shadows of their famous male family members: Robert Schumann and Felix Mendelssohn.

Many composers have impacted music since the beginning of time. Out of all composers we have studied Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, Tchaikovsky, Brahms, and Armstrong all stand out to me. They have all contributed to the history of music in amazing ways. Out of those that stand out to me, I think Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, and Armstrong are the most influential composers. Each in their own way have affected the course of music and how it is composed and also appreciated.

Music of Robert Schumann embodies many of the most characteristic features of German Romanticism – deep psychological insight, aspiration for the ideal, intimacy, irony and bitterness. Advanced aesthetic tendencies of German culture in the period of 1820-40s found vivid expression in his music. In contradictions, which are inherent in Schumann’s music, reflected the complex contradictions of the social life from his time. His music is filled with a restless, rebellious spirit that puts him in the same line with Byron, Heine, Goethe, Wagner and others. However, the theme of rebellion in the music of Schumann has a psychological, but very lyrical representation. Compared to Heinrich Heine, Victor Hugo, and Ludwig Van Beethoven who viewed the world through the prism of social injustice, Schumann did not aim towards social revolt. The greatest part of his diverse heritage was his personal “confession” in music. Schumann’s piano music, for instance, Kreisleriana, Op.16 and the Symphonic Etudes, op.13, are truly a musical encyclopedia of the human soul with many nuances and tones, with shades of colors of joy, sorrow, anguish, doubt and struggle, dreams and anxieties, rush, despair, faith and courage.

The narrator does not value his wife’s poetry and therefore does not feel connected to her. The narrator remembers the first time his wife showed him the poem she wrote about Robert, and the narrator says, “I can remember I didn’t think much of the poem. Of course, I didn’t

In the next four lines of the poem, the speaker talks about how he feels as he imagines his childhood. Even though he is in front of this woman who is singing and playing music, “in spite of” himself, his present state, this “insidious mastery of song betrays” the speaker back “till” he “weeps” to go back to his childhood. The guileful dominance of the song the woman is singing beguiles him to think about his past experience. His heart “weeps to belong to the old Sunday evenings at home.” He really misses the time when he was little, and he used to hear his mother playing piano every Sunday evening. He wants to go back to his childhood and belong to that time again.

Franz Liszt was many things in his lifetime; an author; a philanthropist; a scintillating, detail oriented, conductor; a brilliant, inventive, composer; more than a mere pianist, he was an intriguing and captivating performer; an altruistic piano teacher; and eventually a devout clergyman. His father, Adam Liszt, an extremely talented musician, gave young Liszt his earliest lessons on the piano. It wasn't long before he realized the uncanny talent his son possessed. Seeing this, he placed his own career as a musician on the back burner in order to obtain further musical education for his son, a blossoming prodigy. Soon young Liszt was studying composition with Antonio Salieri, and piano with Carl Czerny, a previous student of Beethoven. By the time he was eight, he had written his first

Richard Wagner of 1813-1883 born in Germany became one of the world’s most influential dramatic composers best known for his operas. Wilhelm Richard Wagner was born in Leipzig, Germany on May 22 1813, the ninth child born into a middle-class family. He attended school in Dresden, German, growing up, he showed very little interest in music he was only concerned with writing poetry.