Schumann, R.: Piano Trios, Vol. 2

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Cat No: 8553837

Release Date: 01 January 2000

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Composer/Series: SCHUMANN, R.

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Robert Schumann(1810-1856)Piano Trios, Volume 2Piano Trio in G minor Op. 110 Piano Trio in A minor'Fantasiestucke', Op. 88 Six Pieces in CanonicForm for piano, violin and violoncello, Op. 56 Robert Schumann wasborn in 1810, into a middle-class family in Zwickau in Saxony, in the eastern partof Germany, His father was abookseller and minor writer who died when Robert was only sixteen, a year afterthe death of his eldest daughter. Originally enrolled to study Law at Leipzig University, music was his greatlove. Whilst studying under Friederich Wieck, he was invited to take lodgingsin his teacher's household and met Wieck's young daughter Clara, who wasalready making a name for herself as a child pianist. Schumann's ownabilities as a pianist never materialised, partly from damage to his left handresulting from a prescription of mercury for treatment of the syphilis whichwas to plague his life. Despite his illness and the opposition of Clara'sfather, the two married, for better or worse, in 1840. The marriage was toprove a turning-point in Schumann's career, leading him away from writing solopiano music to the outpouring of his affection for Clara in the two song-cyclesDichterliebe and particularly the emotional Frauenliebe und Leben. Aswell as these songs, Schumann now began work on his cycle of four symphonies-important works of the Romantic symphonic repertoire. Despite the happinessof his newly married state, Schumann was plagued by manic depression and had torely for income mainly on Clara's concert tours. Mendelssohn gave him aprofessorship in music at the Leipzig Conservatory but Schumann soon resignedand moved to nearby Dresden Established in 1850 as director of music in Dtisseldorf,by 1854 his moods were so black that he attempted to drown himself in the Rhine. The result was hiscommittal to an asylum near Bonn where he died, in great distress, of the complicationsof tertiary syphilis in July 1856. Both Clara and her friend, Brahms, werewitness to his final moments. Schumann neversucceeded in winning true success in his lifetime and today he is often rankedbelow his contemporaties, particularly Brahms and Mendelssohn. His music isnevertheless the true face of the Romantic movement, his piano and chambermusic firmly rooted in a new style well away from the classical works of Haydnor Mozart, the heir to Beethoven and Schuben. He managed to compose in mostforms of music available to him from solo works to large-scale vocal andorchestral cantatas, incidental music and even an opera. His legacy iswide-ranging and shockingly undervalued, technically adept and melodicallyappealing. Work on the first twoof Schumann's piano trios, Op. 63 in D minor and Op. 80 inF major, began during a flurry of activity in 1847. The second symphony hadjust been completed and he was at work on his major operatic project Genoveva,having sketched the Overture in April. Perhaps he was making np forthe rather poor output of 1846 with a huge su
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