Here's something you might be interested in.
Ask a Hipster — Advice you didn't know you needed
Big Screen — Movie commentary
Blurt — Music's inside track
Booze News — San Diego spirits
Classical Music — Immortal beauty
Classifieds — Free and easy
Cover Stories — Front-page features
Drinks All Around — Bartenders' drink recipes
Excerpts — Literary and spiritual excerpts
Feast! — Food & drink reviews
Feature Stories — Local news & stories
Fishing Report — What’s getting hooked from ship and shore
From the Archives — Spotlight on the past
Golden Dreams — Talk of the town
The Gonzo Report — Making the musical scene, or at least reporting from it
Letters — Our inbox
Movies@Home — Local movie buffs share favorites
Movie Reviews — Our critics' picks and pans
Musician Interviews — Up close with local artists
Neighborhood News from Stringers — Hyperlocal news
News Ticker — News & politics
Obermeyer — San Diego politics illustrated
Outdoors — Weekly changes in flora and fauna
Overheard in San Diego — Eavesdropping illustrated
Poetry — The old and the new
Reader Travel — Travel section built by travelers
Reading — The hunt for intellectuals
Roam-O-Rama — SoCal's best hiking/biking trails
San Diego Beer — Inside San Diego suds
SD on the QT — Almost factual news
Sheep and Goats — Places of worship
Special Issues — The best of
Street Style — San Diego streets have style
Surf Diego — Real stories from those braving the waves
Theater — On stage in San Diego this week
Tin Fork — Silver spoon alternative
Under the Radar — Matt Potter's undercover work
Unforgettable — Long-ago San Diego
Unreal Estate — San Diego's priciest pads
Your Week — Daily event picks
Never go full romantic
Robert and Clara Schumann — classical music power couple
Clara and Robert Schumann.
When we speak of classical music power couples there are a few which come to mind. There are Richard and Cosima Wagner, Frederic Chopin and George Sand, Gustav and Alma Mahler, Tchaikovsky and Nadezhda von Meck. The ultimate power couple was Robert and Clara Schumann, and they had their wedding anniversary on September 12.
Robert studied piano with Clara’s father, Friedrich Wieck. As Clara was nine years younger than Robert, she all but grew up with him. They met at a musical event when Clara was eight years-old and Robert 17. Clara was pianist prodigy and so impressed Robert that he quit his studies in law to pursue music as a vocation.
We have Clara’s father to thank for some of Robert’s best and most popular music. When Papa Wieck found out about the budding romance between the then 15-year-old Clara and Robert he forbade it and forced them to burn all of their correspondence.
With the advent of a forbidden love Robert went full romantic. Never go full romantic. It’s awful. Robert took to waiting for hours in a city where Clara was performing in order to see her for just a few minutes. He also began setting ardent poetry to musical settings for piano and voice.
In 1840, his so called Liederjahre, Schumann wrote at least 138 songs including the Liederkreis and Dichterliebe. Liederkreis is a series of poems about nature and Dichterliebe is about a young poet who is in love and ends up alone.
Video:
The old, angry songs/The dreams, angry and wicked...
In the final song of the Dichterliebe the poet decides to bury all his hateful songs and dreams of the past. He needs 12 giants to bear the coffin of his past into the sea. The final verse of the song explains why giants are needed.
Do you know why the coffin
Has to be so huge and heavy?
Because I sank all my love in it
And all of my great grief.
Wow Robert, yearn much?
When Clara turned 18 Robert proposed. She said yes. Her father said no. The couple took the issue to court and the judge ruled in their favor. They were married September 12, 1840, the day before Clara’s 21st birthday
They were married until Robert died in 1856. After suffering a mental collapse and attempting suicide in 1854, Robert requested that he be put in an asylum where he died.
I told you going full romantic is a bad idea.
Here's something you might be interested in.
Never go full romantic
Robert and Clara Schumann — classical music power couple
Never go full romantic
Robert and Clara Schumann — classical music power couple
Clara and Robert Schumann.
When we speak of classical music power couples there are a few which come to mind. There are Richard and Cosima Wagner, Frederic Chopin and George Sand, Gustav and Alma Mahler, Tchaikovsky and Nadezhda von Meck. The ultimate power couple was Robert and Clara Schumann, and they had their wedding anniversary on September 12.
Robert studied piano with Clara’s father, Friedrich Wieck. As Clara was nine years younger than Robert, she all but grew up with him. They met at a musical event when Clara was eight years-old and Robert 17. Clara was pianist prodigy and so impressed Robert that he quit his studies in law to pursue music as a vocation.
We have Clara’s father to thank for some of Robert’s best and most popular music. When Papa Wieck found out about the budding romance between the then 15-year-old Clara and Robert he forbade it and forced them to burn all of their correspondence.
With the advent of a forbidden love Robert went full romantic. Never go full romantic. It’s awful. Robert took to waiting for hours in a city where Clara was performing in order to see her for just a few minutes. He also began setting ardent poetry to musical settings for piano and voice.
In 1840, his so called Liederjahre, Schumann wrote at least 138 songs including the Liederkreis and Dichterliebe. Liederkreis is a series of poems about nature and Dichterliebe is about a young poet who is in love and ends up alone.
Video:
The old, angry songs/The dreams, angry and wicked...
In the final song of the Dichterliebe the poet decides to bury all his hateful songs and dreams of the past. He needs 12 giants to bear the coffin of his past into the sea. The final verse of the song explains why giants are needed.
Do you know why the coffin
Has to be so huge and heavy?
Because I sank all my love in it
And all of my great grief.
Wow Robert, yearn much?
When Clara turned 18 Robert proposed. She said yes. Her father said no. The couple took the issue to court and the judge ruled in their favor. They were married September 12, 1840, the day before Clara’s 21st birthday
They were married until Robert died in 1856. After suffering a mental collapse and attempting suicide in 1854, Robert requested that he be put in an asylum where he died.
I told you going full romantic is a bad idea.
Comments