A wife, a mother of eight children, pianist, musical Advisor, concert Manager, composer: The Bonn Schumann festival, Clara Schumann has in view – but that’s a rare composer belonged to the inside.
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Composers in focus: The Schumann festival in 2019
Clara Schumann (1819-1896)
Her father, Friedrich Wieck trained her to the Piano Superstar. Her husband, Robert Schumann allowed her the profitable concert career, your said however the composing. For Johannes Brahms, Clara Schumann was a valued adviser and soul-friend. Thanks to the still fairly young research to your Person Clara enters Schumann gradually out of the shadow of the men in your life.
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Composers in focus: The Schumann festival in 2019
Maria Theresia von Paradis (1759-1824)
From the age of four blind, played by Maria Theresia von Paradis as a child at the Austrian court, and was celebrated on concert tours. Mozart should have composed a piano Concerto for you. But she was also self-Tonsetzerin. In 1786, published songs, piano works and chamber music from Paradis’ spring, in addition, she composed two piano concertos, cantatas, singing games, and an Opera.
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Composers in focus: The Schumann festival in 2019
Emilie Mayer (1812-1883)
She was the first professional composer in the history of music. As a “female Beethoven” celebrated Emilie Mayer triumphs in the whole of Europe. Married you never. After her death, her works were soon forgotten: Only a part of their eight symphonies, 15 concert overtures, and various chamber music works was released until today.
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Composers in focus: The Schumann festival in 2019
Pauline Viardot-García (1821-1910)
“The most brilliant woman, who seemed to me ever,” was how she described no other than Clara Schumann. Pauline García was one of the greatest singers of the 19th century. Century. For your composition activity, the marriage with the writer Louis Viardot in 1840, was a stroke of luck: He supported them in a sustainable way. After the end of their stage career, many productive years followed as a composer.
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Composers in focus: The Schumann festival in 2019
Lil Hardin Armstrong (1898-1971)
The most prominent woman in early Jazz and played the piano, sang, composed and arranged music for some of the biggest Bands in New Orleans. In 1921, she met Louis Armstrong and married him three years later. Significantly, she contributed to its success, and wrote Songs like “Struttin’ with Some Barbecue”, “Don’t Jive Me”, “Two Deuces”, “Knee Drops”, “Doin’ the Suzie-Q” and “Just for a Thrill”.
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Composers in focus: The Schumann festival in 2019
Ann Ronell (1905-1993)
After studying at the American composer Walter Piston, she met George Gershwin, who hired her as a pianist. This Ann Ronells Broadway-marked entry. In 1932, she wrote her most successful Song, “Willow Weep for Me”, and later she composed music for animated films and entire film scores. Also ballet music came from your spring.
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Composers in focus: The Schumann festival in 2019
Clara Schumann (1819-1896)
Her father, Friedrich Wieck trained her to the Piano Superstar. Her husband, Robert Schumann allowed her the profitable concert career, your said however the composing. For Johannes Brahms, Clara Schumann was a valued adviser and soul-friend. Thanks to the still fairly young research to your Person Clara enters Schumann gradually out of the shadow of the men in your life.
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Composers in focus: The Schumann festival in 2019
Maria Theresia von Paradis (1759-1824)
From the age of four blind, played by Maria Theresia von Paradis as a child at the Austrian court, and was celebrated on concert tours. Mozart should have composed a piano Concerto for you. But she was also self-Tonsetzerin. In 1786, published songs, piano works and chamber music from Paradis’ spring, in addition, she composed two piano concertos, cantatas, singing games, and an Opera.
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Composers in focus: The Schumann festival in 2019
Emilie Mayer (1812-1883)
She was the first professional composer in the history of music. As a “female Beethoven” celebrated Emilie Mayer triumphs in the whole of Europe. Married you never. After her death, her works were soon forgotten: Only a part of their eight symphonies, 15 concert overtures, and various chamber music works was released until today.
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Composers in focus: The Schumann festival in 2019
Pauline Viardot-García (1821-1910)
“The most brilliant woman, who seemed to me ever,” was how she described no other than Clara Schumann. Pauline García was one of the greatest singers of the 19th century. Century. For your composition activity, the marriage with the writer Louis Viardot in 1840, was a stroke of luck: He supported them in a sustainable way. After the end of their stage career, many productive years followed as a composer.
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Composers in focus: The Schumann festival in 2019
Lil Hardin Armstrong (1898-1971)
The most prominent woman in early Jazz and played the piano, sang, composed and arranged music for some of the biggest Bands in New Orleans. In 1921, she met Louis Armstrong and married him three years later. Significantly, she contributed to its success, and wrote Songs like “Struttin’ with Some Barbecue”, “Don’t Jive Me”, “Two Deuces”, “Knee Drops”, “Doin’ the Suzie-Q” and “Just for a Thrill”.
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Composers in focus: The Schumann festival in 2019
Ann Ronell (1905-1993)
After studying at the American composer Walter Piston, she met George Gershwin, who hired her as a pianist. This Ann Ronells Broadway-marked entry. In 1932, she wrote her most successful Song, “Willow Weep for Me”, and later she composed music for animated films and entire film scores. Also ballet music came from your spring.
“How I would love to compose, but here I can’t quite. I console myself that I am a woman, and not born to compose.”
These lines wrote a woman who had already completed several compositions, around a piano concert at the age of 15 years, and piano works, songs and chamber music. Up to 1856, some two dozen works from the pen of Clara Wieck-Schumann, the year of death of her husband Robert. He died in a hospital for the mentally Ill in Bonn-Endenich.
After that Clara Schumann composed never again – but also during the marriage Robert Schumann had said of her composing time.
Clara in the anniversary year
Clara Wieck-Schumann, on 13. September 1819 in Leipzig, is born in some places in the 200. The year after her birth, celebrated, played, thought. Since it is only in the past few years, a Clara Schumann-research, discover some aspects of this interesting figure in the history of music yet to be.
As the most famous pianist of the 19th century. Century, Clara Schumann coined life the music, why not as a composer? “You have to see that she has just composed in my young years,” says Markus Schuck, Director of the Bonn Schumannfests. “An old factory, there is not in the sense of her. However, it is also with the question: What is the role of the woman came up at that time?”
Markus Schuck
Composers and performers in the spotlight
The Bonn Schumann festival, the on 1. June with an evening of song begins at 16. To June with a singing competition for children, in each of the 16 events, a composer. The focus of Clara Schumann, which is in approximately in the biographical Film “reverie” from the year 1944 to-be-experienced, but also one of pupils of the Bonn Clara-Schumann-gymnasium created and listed Musical called “Clara”.
The same title is also a play of the Bonn-based “fringe ensemble”, created for the Schumann festival (Director and Text: Marlin de Haan) is wearing.
Award-winning: the composer and pianist Aurelia Shimkus
The focus is on the concerts, however. “We even have a pianist, also a composer, and during his lifetime in a similar stage as Clara,” says Markus Schuck: The 22-year-old Latvian pianist and composer, and ECHO Klassik prize-winner Aurelia Shimkus will present their own music as well as works by Bach, Schumann, and the Russian contemporary Tonsetzerin Sofia Gubaidulina.
Under the Motto “word and music” to go, the young violinist Liv Migdal and her sister, the actress Nadia Migdal, the question: “Why are the creations of composers rarely represented in concert programmes?” Together with the pianist and lyricist Daniel Gerzen mountain they have to deal with the thoughts and sound worlds of poets and composers.
The concerts will be recorded
In addition to Aurelia Shimkus, the German pianist Katharina Treutler, and the German give-a Greek pianist, Danae Dörken, piano recitals featuring works by Robert and Clara Schumann. Dörkens concert – as well as the opening concert with the song singer Arttu Kataja and piano accompanist Paulina Tukiainen is from Deutsche Welle, recorded and time shifted in the classic broadcast of the Concert Hour broadcast.
Danae Dörken is playing on the 15. June, works by Robert and Clara Schumann, but also of Mendelssohn and Chopin
Patron of the Bonn Schumannfests this year is the DW Director General Peter Limbourg. “The support of the DW gives us a push forward and helps us, that Robert Schumann will also be heard in other countries, but even now, in this year, the compositions of Clara Schumann”, says Markus Schuck. “Schumann has discovered artists. This also applies to the Deutsche Welle, the development of cultural life in the world.”
Together with a small Team Schuck designed the Bonn Schumann festival as a volunteer, and the Festival receives only a small financial support from the city. “We are really at our limits. We are in need of an organizational area with just paid staff, to be able to here the festival structure on duration of keep. But the memory of Robert and Clara Schumann motivated us so much that we make it possible after all.”
The Bonn Schumann festival stands under the Motto “beloved Clara” and goes from 1. until 16 June. Click here for the program.