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The Best of Robert Schumann (8 June 1810 -- 29 July 1856)
Schumann is widely regarded as one of the greatest composers of the Romantic era. Schumann left the study of law, intending to pursue a career as a virtuoso pianist. He had been assured by his teacher Friedrich Wieck that he could become the finest pianist in Europe, but a hand injury ended this dream. Schumann then focused his musical energies on composing. Schumann's published compositions were written exclusively for the piano until 1840; he later composed works for piano and orchestra; many Lieder (songs for voice and piano); four symphonies; an opera; and other orchestral, choral, and chamber works. Works such as Kinderszenen, Album für die Jugend, Blumenstück, Sonatas and Albumblätter are among his most famous. His writings about music appeared mostly in the Neue Zeitschrift für Musik (New Journal for Music), a Leipzig-based publication which he jointly founded.
In 1840, against the wishes of her father, Schumann married Friedrich Wieck's daughter Clara, following a long and acrimonious legal battle, which found in favor of Clara and Robert. Clara also composed music and had a considerable concert career as a pianist, the earnings from which formed a substantial part of her father's fortune.
Schumann suffered from a lifelong mental disorder, first manifesting itself in 1833 as a severe melancholic depressive episode, which recurred several times alternating with phases of 'exaltation' and increasingly also delusional ideas of being poisoned or threatened with metallic items. After a suicide attempt in 1854, Schumann was admitted to a mental asylum, at his own request, in Endenich near Bonn. Diagnosed with "psychotic melancholia", Schumann died two years later in 1856 without having recovered from his mental illness.
0:00 Symphony No.3 Flat Major Op.97 "Rhenish": Lebhaft
9:00 Dreaming (From "Child-Scenes" Op.15)
12:06 Moonnight (From "Eichendorff-Circular Songs" Op.39)
16:17 Upturn (From "Fantasy Pieces" Op.12)
19:31 Triolett Op.114 No.2
21:17 Dance Song (No.1 From "Duets" Op.78)
23:36 Symphony No.4 In D-Minor Op.120: Romanze. Ziemlich Langsam
27:44 Spring Greeting
29:31 Abschied (From "Snow Scenes" Op.82)
32:59 Denser Love Op.48 "In The Beautiful month of May"
34:47 Manfred-Overture Op.115
46:29 Romance In F-Sharp Major Op.28 No.2
49:59 The Rose Was In The Tau
52:39 Love Garden (From "Four Duets" Op.34)
56:09 Why? (From "Fantasy Pieces" Op.12)
59:18 Do You Know The Country Op.79 No.29 (From "Songs Of Mignon" Op.98a)
1:04:16 Of Foreign Countries and People (From "Child Scenes" Op.15)
