Friday, September 14, 2012

Clara Schumann, sassy Victorian pianist, gets Google Doodle honor

But what about the other Schumann, also a composer and musician of huge talent? Today's Google Doodle shines a light.Clara Schumann was born 193 years ago today in Germany and is well known for her work as a composer and as a Pianists. In fact, Wikipedia writes she is known as the most “distinguished pianists of the Romantic era.” In her long career, she changed theClara Schumann was a German Pianist well known for her long 61-year concert career and being one of the first pianists to perform from memory. She played Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, Schubert, Mendelssohn, Chopin, and Schumann. She is known forClara married Robert Schumann, whom she is supposed to have met during her first performance at the age of eight, in 1839. The couple had eight children. But tr.But what about the other Schumann, also a composer and musician of huge talent? Today's Google Doodle shines a light on Clara Schumann, the – some might say – long-suffering wife of Robert Schumann, the German composer who died in a psychiatric
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