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C.Schumann
About composer
German composer, concert pianist & teacher 🇩🇪
Best known as a concert pianist
Female composers were usually not expected or encouraged during her time
Education
Raised by her father,
Friedrich Wieck
, a talented piano teacher
Teenage years:
Clara began performing around Europe
Produced a Piano Concerto at 15
wrote a large number of works before getting married
Impact on music
Many of her works feature
piano
either as a solo, part of an ensemble or as accompaniment
Known as the 'Queen of the piano'
wrote Lieders (songs)
Worked with Joseph Joachim, a leading violinist during the 19th century
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Life
1840:
Married Robert Schumann, a pupil of her father
Had 8 children but only 4 survived
Was the main breadwinner for the family as Robert earned very little money from composer
Husband suffered from mental illness
Piano trio in G minor
1846:
Piece is written. Same year she premiered R. Schumann's Piano Concerto & had her 4th child
Op.17: 4 movements
Scherzo and trio
Andante
Allegretto
Allegro moderato
The Piano Trio
One of the most important forms of
chamber music
during 18th-19th century
Piano trios were usually performed in the salons of the patrons and performers before moving to concert performances later in the century
Style established by classical composers, the developed during
Romantic Period
Usually written for violin, cello & piano
Wider Listening
Ballade No.4 in F Minor -
Chopin
Development of ideas/subjects using
2 main themes
Explores dissonant keys
Chromatic harmony
Trio for clarinet, cello & piano
- Farrenc
Female composer & concert pianist
3 parts have equal importance
Modulate to closely related keys
More conventional that Schumann
Lyrical melodies
Piano trio No.1 in D minor
- R.Schumann
(1847)
Emotional contrasts
more rhythmically driven
Sonata form
More fiery & energetic v.s Clara elegant & flexibile
Instruments are integrated but less equal than Piano trio g minor
Piano Trio 1 in Bb Major
- Schubert
Use of syncopation
also uses 2 main subjects/themes in the exposition
Use of homorhythmic bars
Strings play opening theme then piano takes over
Extended development section
Piano more for harmonic foundation
Piano Quintet in F Minor, Mvt 3
- Brahms
Virtuosic piece to perform
Syncopation
Use of imitation (fugue-like)
Homorhythmic textures
All parts are equally important
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