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Schuman, Robert Biography Robert Schumann was born in the provincial Saxon town of Zvikkau on June 8 in the year, in the family of the publisher and book trader August Schumann. Schuman's father handed over his son a reverent attitude to art, literature, and did not interfere with his music. Robert was then engaged in local organist I. From an early age, Shuman loved to improvise on the piano, and already at the age of 13 his composer abilities appeared - he writes a psalm for the choir with the orchestra.

Young Robert was a romantic nature, and he was completely not interested in the jurisprudence that he studied at the universities of Leipzig and Heidelberg in years. Classes with the famous piano teacher Friedrich Vick, attending concerts in Leipzig, acquaintance with the works of Franz Schubert contributed to the decision to devote themselves to music. With difficulty overcoming the resistance of relatives, Schumann began to enhanced piano classes, but the disease of his right hand due to mechanical training of fingers at the age of 21 made a pianist's career impossible for him.

Therefore, Schumann with great enthusiasm is given to the essay of music, takes the composition lessons from the German composer and conductor from Könisberg, Dorn, in parallel, he studies the work of I. Bach and L. The composer independence of the young author determines the first published piano works of variations on the ABEGG, “butterflies”, in the years. Since the year, Schumann has become an editor, and then the publisher of the “New Musical Journal”, he defined his goal as the fight against the superficial works of virtuoso composers, who had flooded the concert stage at that time, with the craft of classics, for a new, deep art, illuminated by poetic inspiration.

In his articles written in the original artistic form - often in the form of scenes, dialogues, aphorisms - Schuman represents the reader the ideal of true art, which he sees in the works of F. Schubert and F. Mendelsson, F. Chopin and G. Berlioz, in the music of Viennese classics, in the game of N. Paganini and the young pianist Clara Vic, the daughter of her teacher.

Schuman managed to gather like -minded people around him. The highest tension of the spiritual forces and the highest ups of the creative genius “Fantastic plays”, “Dancing Davidsbundler”, “Fantasy to the Major”, “Kreislerian”, “Novelletta”, “Humores”, “Vienna Carnival” brought Schuman the second half of the 10th. In an effort to find a wider arena for his musical and journalistic activity, Schumann holds the GG season.

The unusual sensitivity of poetry, a deep knowledge of the work of contemporaries contributed to the implementation in numerous song cycles and individual songs of a true alliance with poetry, the exact embodiment of the individual poetic intonation of G. Heine “Circle of Songs” OR. Eichendorf "Circle of Songs" op. Shamissso “Love and Life of a Woman”, R. Berns, F.

Ryukkert, J. Byron, G. Andersen and others. And subsequently, the area of ​​vocal creativity continued to replenish with the remarkable works of “Six Poems” by N. Goethe - and others. The life and work of Schumann in the x. Rales of creative energy marked the beginning of the xg. Schumann composes a lot, teaches in the Leipzig Conservatory that opened in the city of the Leipzig, from the same year he begins to act as a conductor.

In Dresden and Dusseldorf, he also leads the choir, giving himself to this work with enthusiasm. Of the few touring trips, made together with Klara, the longest and a storm of impressions for Schumann, there was a trip to Russia since the 10th. She was loved by Russian composers M. Balakirev and M. Mussorgsky, A. Borodin and especially Tchaikovsky, who considered Schumann the most outstanding modern composer.

The ingenious performer of the piano works of Schuman was the pianist A. Creativity of X Shuman writes the first - “spring”,, the second,; The third - "Rhine",; Fourth, I am ed. The courage is distinguished by a piano concert and the fourth symphony, the exceptional harmony of the embodiment and the inspiration of musical thoughts-Quintet Mi-Bemol Major. One of the climaxes of the whole work of the composer was the music for Byron’s dramatic poem “Manfred” - the most important milestone in the development of romantic symphonism on the way from Beethoven to the sheet, Tchaikovsky, Brahms.

Schuman does not change Schumann to his favorite piano writings “Forest Scenes”, and other plays - it is his sound that gives its chamber ensembles and vocal lyrics special expressiveness. The composer’s searches in the field of vocal-dramatic music of the “Paradise and Peri” by T. Muru-; Scenes from the "Faust" Goethe; ballads for soloists, choir and orchestra; The works of spiritual genres and others.

The production of the only opera of Schumann in the 4 actions in Leipzig in 4 actions is Genevev according to F. Goebbel and L. Tiku, close in plot motifs to the German romantic “knightly” opera K. Weber and R. Wagner, unfortunately, does not bring success to the composer. Schuman always treated young talented composers with extraordinary sensitivity. A big event of the last years of Schumann was his meeting with the twenty -year -old Brahms.The article “New Roads”, in which Schumann predicted a great future to his spiritual heir, completed his journalistic activity.

In February, a strong attack of Schumann’s mental illness led to an attempt to suicide, forcing him to jump into the waters of the Rhine. He managed to save him, however, having stayed for 2 years in a psychiatric hospital, at the age of 46, Shuman died. The work of Schumann marked the mature stage of musical romanticism with his aggravated attention to the embodiment of the complex psychological processes of human life.

The piano and vocal cycles of Schumann, many of the chamber-instrumental, symphonic works have discovered a new art world, new forms of musical expression. Schuman's music can be presented as a series of surprisingly capacious musical moments that capture the changeable and very subtly differentiated mental states of a person. It can be musical portraits that exactly capture both external characteristics and the inner essence of the depicted.

The name of Schumann bears an international competition of academic music performers, which is called-International Robert-Schumann-WettBewerb. It first took place in Berlin.

There is also a music prize named after Robert Schumann, established by the mayor of Zvikkau. The celebration of laureates, including musicologists, conductors and musicians who contributed to the popularization of Shuman's works, traditionally occurs on June 8 - on the composer's birthday. Robert Shuman was definitely and remains for us a person with a particularly subtle mental organization.

The main woman in the life of the German composer was a brilliant pianist Clara Vic. Despite the deep feeling connecting the spouses, their family life cannot be called cloudless. Clara combined concert activity with the role of his wife and mother, she gave birth to Schuman of eight children. Felix was named the youngest son - in honor of his friend and colleagues of Schumann Felix Mendelssonon.

However, Schumann was tormented and worried that he could not provide the family with a worthy comfortable existence, but Clara all his life remained his faithful companion, trying to support her husband in every possible way. Clara all her life tried to popularize her husband’s work, including his works in her concerts even after the death of Schumann. She gave the last concert at the age of 72.

The romantic love story of Clara and Robert Schumann was filmed. In the city based on Belcanto materials.