MUSIC 1AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Clara Schumann, Franz Liszt, Virtuosity
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Schumann dealt with anxiety and had mental illnesses. Clara schumann was an advocate of her husband, robert"s, music. The piano was the most prominent sole instrument of the romantic period and was particularly associated with the virtuosity of franz liszt. Character pieces were short and often lyrical piano pieces intended for both private and public performance; composed by schumann, Individual pieces in carnaval are associated with schumann"s acquaintances, composers he admired and figures from caranaval; the set imagines all characters are present at a masked chamber music. Childe prodigy who studied with her father, fredrich wiech, and made her official debut at the leipzig gewandhaus at the age of eleven. Also composed music; she gradually moved away from the kind of flashy display characteristic of 19th century piano virtuoso. Composed variations, a piano concerto, introspective character pieces, songs, and chamber music.
