Clara Schumann Pianoconcerto in A minor, Op. 7 - Allegro maestoso

[jigsawzoubir]

She was much more than Robert Schumann's wife, she was his rival when she wrote her own works, and, probably, the co-writer of a part of his works ...

[Mizzles240]

think of all the sandwiches robert missed out on because of this... :(

[jigsawzoubir]

@Mizzles240 You've just missed the occasion to stfu

[rationalistx]

She looks pretty miserable in those pictures - mind you ,her husband did have severe mental problems.

[nikkitytom]

I am haunted by this remarkable woman and her story ... and now even more by her beautiful music. Surely she ranks right up there with her husband. I wonder now if his name and music were perhaps preserved and given their place in the pantheon of great composers by Clara's lifelong career as a concert pianist, promoting his work, even when he was not popular. She raised seven children and supported him financially through most of their life together. A truly haunting story.

[redbrian3655]

If it had not been for the film "Spring Symphony", I would have never have even known what an amazing musician Clara Schumann was. BRIAN

[612curtis]

This is amazing to listen to :D

[RicAbapo]

who is the pianist? and what orchestra is this?

[xakoviski]

How come she's not as recognized as Schumann himself, such a shame. She did all the work he gets all the credit.

[Divinemetal]

@xakoviski It took me years to get over that and like Robert's music anyway. It is not his fault that modern society remembers things wrong. I like both Schumanns now, but I prefer Clara very much.

[MrCatchupz]

kurva sa 100 dema :D

[xw668]

she is beautiful when young

[xanglat]

Une de mes oevres favorites de cette virtuose hors norme qu'était Clara Schumann ! Mais d'elle, tant de créations, compositions.....je raffole !

Avec reconnaissance intense

[haisenpahalle]

such beauty and virtuosity... what a shame it is that even today these talented women are barely recognised!

[33unoka]

wunderschönes Stüdk großartig gespielt! danke!

[azraelsnemesis]

Clara rules!

[TheLastYogurt]

God, this is so beautiful.

[elisabetlofberg]

Friends!!

[walkingwithlordfusaw]

talented woman!!! i wish i could hear her performance.........

[rickbmtl]

So Clara was a big promoter of her husband's music but she was the breadwinner of the family for most of her life. First when Schuman was young and sane he made very little money from his compositions and then after becoming insane but more popular all the family dependeded on Clara's virtuoso career. She help orchestrate or even finish some of Robert's works that gained popularity. Herself she then mostly composed short piano solo pieces for her recitals, as was the norm for virtuosos then.

[rickbmtl]

She was the first (with Fanny Mendhelson) of female virtuoso pianists. Well before there were some female vistuosos on the pianoforte or harpsichord like Nannerl Mozart or Maria Barbara de Braganza princess royal of Portugal but all were limited by either social status or marriage in their carrer (hobby?) and concert activities. In the case of Clara Schuman she became the big promoter of her husband's music at the expense of her own music composition. To be continued...

[cpizzy1234]

doing on a report on her for music appreciation, so far shes pretty awesome XD

[jukeboxberries]

ME TOO

[SublimeAmiga]

I am writing a research paper about her. Thanks for the song! In my book there is only 1 page of bio about her in my classical music era. She studied piano from age 5 made her first public appearance as a concert artist in the Leipzig at age 9 and undertook her first extended concert tour several years later.

[CorelliChopin08]

1.10 U can here the horns playing part of the main melodie from Robert Schumann's 1st piano concerto.

[masterclassicalmusic]

where can i downloads this piece?

[photoeditingchicken]

@masterclassicalmusic You can google many YouTube mp3 converter/downloaders, just be careful which you choose...and, yeah, quality of the downloaded file sucked with the couple that I've tried.

[watutman]

Sounds very much like Chopin

[SublimeAmiga]

@watutman Yes she was a well-known leading interpreter of both Brahms and Chopin.

[kaleidoscopicepic14]

She wrote this around 1833-1836, making her anywhere from 14-17 years old at time of composing...

[redwoodresidence]

Clara>Robert!

[karasumusha]

Any fan of Clara Schumann should listen to Beloved Clara. It is very good.

[anabenedicto]

My son is a great pianist and he has a project to record a CD only with music of women.. because is so injust this forgot and I do not know if is possible to repair it.

[SEXGYN]

muss referat über sie halten

[minetto2]

she deserved to be much better known, women also have their place in music history!

[maestroathlete]

Thats funny- i play piano and my name is clara

[monicafrompoplar]

I'm doing a project about Clara Schumann in my music class I need to get 100 pts. by Friday if there's school that day I hope there's no School for the rest of the week.

[mbrookfi]

Cnsidering that woman were almost sub-mensh in early 19th c. german (and other) societies , it was amazing that she got as far as she did. Three cheers for Clara Wieck

[yoyobanannahead]

yo man i have to do a project on her im my music class

[CrippledRetardo]

She was so manly.

[nauort23]

@CrippledRetardo Yeah, this was before breast implants, bulimia, cosmetic surgery, lyposuction, tanning booths and all the other wonderful things that help a moron like you recognize "womanliness" today.

[freelivesthebird]

@nauort23 I wish I could go back to 19th century, where you had to be very well accomplished for a young lady. I hate the 21st century, although it seems quite cool.

[nauort23]

@freelivesthebird I wouldn't romanticize (no pun intended) the 19th C. for women. The rate of prostitution--especially for women who weren't lucky enough to be brought up "very well accomplished"--was astronomical. No right to vote in most countries. Most women were basically their father's chattel and at his mercy until the highest bidder (husband or pimp) took control of her life. The rate of death in childbirth was also astronomical. Not so cool. Count your blessings.

[freelivesthebird]

@nauort23 well, okay maybe you are right but I meant I think the 21st century is cool. but honestly look at the women now. Yeah we have the right to vote and actually have awesome jobs but some tend to throw their lives away. It's weird. but then again you are right.

[STEPHENWRAYSFORD33]

@nauort23 that's all true, even among middle-class women, child mortality was high, disease often killed, Europe was always at war, Among working class people, things were even worse, unclean water, prostituion, poor nutrition, no pensions, no public health care & problems with alchool & crime. The period from 1910-1940 would be better, it retained a sense of romantisim, yet women could vote, divorce, get a job, own property & live to see their children grow up healthier than in the past.

[Heidialmighty711]

@nauort23 Actually, there were a lot of eating disorders back in that time frame as well, however, it is not as recognized as it is today. Clara though is a natural beauty. :)

[Stravinsky91]

@nauort23 Don't forget it could be worse for the women at that time. Just look at their heavy clothes and corsets :/ they could barely breath. a woman were supposed to have a really small weist (spell?) that was how a woman were supposed to look like in thos days, even worse than today... But besides that you are absolutely right.

[MegaRku]

@Stravinsky91 who is the pianist and which is the orchestra? thank you.

[forgottenwatcher]

@nauort23 your my hero

[1954phialin]

good info..love it..there should be a love story about her..fantastic romance..

[purplepeoplepurple]

Hollywood made a movie about her and Robert in 1947 entitled "Song of Love." There are about 13 of clips from it on YouTube. (Search for Katherine Hepburn Clara Schumann). Hepburn plays Clara, and appears to be actually playing the music. It's rather sappy in the Hollywood way, but definitely worth seeing. Much, much better is a novelized biography of Clara, Robert and Brahms entitled "Longing" - a truly wonderful book.

[mrozomir]

Anyone know where in internet can i find score for this concerto?

[mrbrianmccarthy]

Clara Schumann and Fanny Mendelssohn were the 2 female giants of their time.I wonder if they were friends---or enemies?

[Christfollower29]

@mrbrianmccarthy lol you said fanny.....

[koolaid2528]

@mrbrianmccarthy "I once believed that I possessed creative talent, but I have given up this idea; a woman must not desire to compose — there has never yet been one able to do it." - Clara Schumann

[mrbrianmccarthy]

@koolaid2528 How wrong she was---

[marrieter08]

- clara schumann's personal life..

[marrieter08]

In 1872 her daughter Julie died, leaving two small children. In 1879, her son Felix, aged 25, died. Her son Ludwig was mentally unbalanced, like his father, and, in her words, had to be "buried alive" in an institution. Her son Ferdinand died at the age of 43 and she was required to raise his children. She herself became deaf in later life and she often needed a wheelchair.

[marrieter08]

Her family life was punctuated by tragedy. Four of her eight children and her husband predeceased her, and her husband and one of her sons ended their lives in insane asylums. Her first son Emil died in 1847, aged only one. Her husband Robert had a mental collapse, attempted suicide in 1854, and was committed to an insane asylum for the last two years of his life.

[LVader20]

Wow... This is the first time I hear anything composed by her, and I'm amazed.

She is very good. I like her more than her husband..:P

[kylelandry]

What, I swear she's better than her husband lol.

[mauronastagi]

isnt amazing?? she wrote it at 14 and playd at 16 with mendelssohn as the conductor

[spike91000]

Better than Brahms. There should be more female composers

[markmando333]

beautiful music...

[Humbleboy89]

never heard of clara schumann..

I guess she's schumann's wife, eh?

[Stravinsky91]

yes she was :)

[SaveYoshi]

@Stravinsky91 It was funny, he was actually known as "Clara's husband" for a long time.

[Treasures4Food]

Right, she was a muse, a peer and eventually the wife of Robert Schumann. She continued to raise their kids and run the house even after he went nuts. She had a "platonic" love affair with Johannes Brahms too.

[dave240vert]

@Humbleboy89 she also released most of her music as a widow under her husbands name, who was just as great as she. she had kids to support.. she was a great woman, that's for sure.

[ououman]

@Humbleboy89 Eres to listo, eh?

[MarschNZ]

@Humbleboy89 Yes. Incredible woman. She was also a piano teacher, celebrated concert pianist and probably composer Brahm's greatest friend. One of her pupils, Carl Friedberg, transported her ideas on piano playing to New York, in what is now called the Julliard School of Music.

[sieurvalmont]

@Humbleboy89

Clara Wieck of her maiden name... She was very talented, and a good voice composer too!

[rabbit87519]

@Humbleboy89 yes. she was also one of the great pianists of her time. :)

[viohtml]

@Humbleboy89

Robert Schumann was Clara's husband.

[weedermann]

@Humbleboy89 No, she is Clara Schumann. Give her some respect.

[dbend144]

@Humbleboy89 She was 10000X better then Robert. Alot of her work was published under his name because he was a man. it was very hard for a women to get work published. her father refused them to marry because she was so much better.

[earthatic]

I have never heard any music that is composed by Clara Schumann, but I would love to hear more after hearing this. Absolutely fantastic music.