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    very distinctive style of music emerged. The Romantic Era Lasted from the year 1820 up until the year 1900. The Romantic Era consisted of composers taking a more unique and expressive style of music. Hector Berlioz, Fryderyck Chopin, and Robert Schumann are considered to be the most influential composers of the Romantic Era. Nationalism and Exoticism played a very big part of music expression during this period. Both, Art song and German Lieder music styles were invented and told stories in a musical

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    Confessions of a Key Board Dabbler On September 9th I attended my first SWIC Music Faculty Preview Recital at the Schmidt Art Center. The venue for the afternoon recital was held in the gallery room, a room set up for an audience of about 50 music majors. In the front of the hall sat a white grand piano on parquet floors; the walls of the room were adorned with art of varying mediums. Having mucked around on the piano as a child, I sat enthusiastically as a musical amateur in great awe of anyone

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    Robert Schumann was a famous German composer in the Romantic era. When he was young, his talents revealed from poetry to music. In 1830, he decided to be a musician, although he was learning laws. Since he anxiously wanted to be successful in music, his hands got hurt. However, he still had enthusiastic and sensitive depositions. Then he changed to be engaged in creating and commenting on music. Later on, he married Clara Wieck and wrote over hundred outstanding music. Thus, Robert Schumann’s experiences

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    piece was played in Romanze and duet, and was performed by the pianist Luiza Borac, violinist Vladimir Dyo, and cellist Yves Dharamraj. After a deep sesearch about this piece I find out that the work was came at a happy time in the composer's life: Schumann had married his beloved Clara Wieck in 1840 after her father had made many attempts to thwart their matrimonial plans. The four pieces, or movements, comprising the trio are "Romanze," "Humoreske," "Duett," and Finale. During this program I feel

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    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

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    Clara Schumann Female composers and performers were not very common. If you look back on famous composers, you will find that there are mostly male composers. Out of the shadows of the males, came in very known composer. Her name was Clara Schumann. Not only was she a composer, but she was also a famous pianist. Clara started piano at a very young age. A big part of Clara’s life was her family. She was a very brilliant composer and pianist, and that is why we remember her today as one of the most

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    “In an era when women, apart from singers, almost never performed in public or composed, Clara Schumann did both.” In the 19th Century, Clara Schumann, wife of Robert Schumann, was considered one of the best pianist and composers, even earning the nickname, “Eurpoes Queen . She is an inspiration to female composers fro they were often discouraged and often looked down upon.                         INTERESTING INTRO     Clara Josephine Wieck was born on September 13, 1819 into a middle-class family

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    Poetry In Poetry

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    such as Banjo Paterson have responded to the events and consequences of war in order to engage their audience to consider the themes of honour and sacrifice which can be seen in his patriotic 1915 poem We’re all Australians now. In contrast, John Schumann and Eric Bogle evoke not only the theme of sacrifice but also the horror and waste of war in their poems I was only 19 and Lost Soul respectively. All three poets effectively employ poetic techniques to highlight their key themes. To begin, some

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    Hector Berlioz was a French Romantic composer, born 11 December 1803. Surprisingly, as was and is standard for anyone studying music, he never formally studied the piano, but started on flute and guitar, on which he became rather virtuosic. His sensitivity for music came at an early age from attending mass with his father and hearing the inspired beauty in sacred music. Berlioz grew to be extremely obsessed with free expression through art and believed that it was more important than anything else

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    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 unending love, devotion, and longing that Schumann could personally relate to 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

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