Robert Schumann attending Paganini concert , caprice No. 17

Scene from the movie "Spring Symphony" Frühlingssinfonie (1983).


During Easter, 1830 Schumann heard Niccolò Paganini play in Frankfurt. In July he wrote to his mother, "My whole life has been a struggle between Poetry and Prose, or call it Music and Law." By Christmas he was back in Leipzig, taking piano lessons from his old master, Friedrich Wieck who assured him that he would be a successful concert pianist.
A more dramatic idea is that in an attempt to increase the independence of his fourth finger, he may have carried out a surgical procedure to separate the tendons of the fourth finger from those of the third. Whatever the cause of the injury, Schumann abandoned ideas of a concert career and devoted himself instead to composition.

In this scene Schumann says "I'll be the Paganini of the piano"

Category:

Music

Tags:

• sinfonia
• primavera
• classical
• Liszt
• chopin
• Clara
• Josephine
• Wieck

[eusebium7]

Schumann also transcribed some Paganini pieces for piano..

[masael255]

It's Schumann? I was always under the impression that it was Franz Liszt in this scene. Not having seen the movie, I can't say, but knowing that Liszt reworked this piece for piano, I had assumed such.

[paulinemusic]

where can i find this movie?