Berthold Litzmann
Berthold Litzmann (18 April 1857 – 14 October 1926) was a professor of German studies and a literature historian.
He was a professor at the University of Bonn and the founder of the Society for Literature History, which also included Thomas Mann.
He is known as the author of a three part biography of Clara Schumann.
Litzmann was born in Kiel, the son of Carl Conrad Theodor Litzmann.
He died in Munich.
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Amalie Joachim
Amalie Joachim, née Schneeweiss( 10 May 1839 – 3 February 1899) was an Austrian- German contralto, working in opera and concert and as voice teacher.
She was the wife of the violinist Joseph Joachim, and a friend of Clara Schumann and Johannes Brahms, with whom she made international tours.
Ilona Eibenschütz
Ilona Eibenschütz (8 May 1873 in Budapest, Hungary – 21 May 1967 in London, England) was a Hungarian pianist.
She received her first instruction in music from her cousin Albert Eibenschütz.
Franz Liszt is said to have played at a concert with her when she was five years old.
She later studied with Carl Marek, and from 1878 to 1885 at the Leipzig Conservatory under Hans Schmitt, and then, from 1885 to 1890, with Clara Schumann in Frankfurt.
There she met Johannes Brahms in 1886, and she was close to him until his death in 1897.
She heard him play his own music on various occasions, and in 1926, she wrote (as Mrs. Carl Derenburg) for "The Musical Times[Brahms] played as if he were improvising, with heart and soul, sometimes humming to himself, forgetting everything around him.
His playing was altogether grand and noble, like his compositions."
In the summer of 1893, Brahms privately premiered his piano pieces, op. 118 and op. 119, to Eibenschütz.
She later wrote, "It was of course the most wonderful thing for me to hear these pieces as nobody yet knew anything about them.
I was the first to whom he played them."
Her teacher Clara Schumann was Brahms's closest personal and musical friend, but expressed reservations privately to Brahms about Eibenschütz's playing, writing to Brahms on 1 February 1894 that "she goes too quickly over everything."
(The translation is by Jerrold Northrup Moore in his booklet notes to the Pearl CD, "Pupils of Clara Schumann" - Pearl CDS 99049 - which includes recordings of Eibenschütz.)
Starting in 1884, at the age of 12, she annually made a concert tour through Germany, Austria, France, Russia, Denmark, Norway, and Sweden, playing before the Queen of Denmark at Copenhagen, before the Czar and Czarina of Russia at the Gatschina Palace, and before the Emperor of Austria at Vienna, by whom she was granted an imperial stipend for five years.
Her debut with the Berlin Philharmonic was on 7 November 1890.
Nancy B. Reich
Nancy Bassen Reich was an American musicologist.
She was born on 3 July 1924 in New York City, and died on 31 January 2019 in Ossining, N.Y.
Her seminal 1985 biography of Clara Schumann established Clara as an important musical figure independent of her husband, the composer Robert Schumann, and helped turn the musicological spotlight on female composers.
Marie Wieck
Marie Wieck( January 17, 1832 – November 2, 1916) was a German pianist, singer, piano teacher, and composer.
She was the daughter of renowned piano teacher Friedrich Wieck, and the younger half- sister of Clara Schumann who was some 12 years older.
Three Romances for Violin and Piano
The Three Romances for Violin and Piano, Op. 22 of Clara Schumann, were written in 1853 and first published in 1855.
Motherland (disambiguation)
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Robert Schumann
Robert Schumann (8 June 181029 July 1856) was a German composer, pianist, and influential music critic.
He 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.
His teacher, Friedrich Wieck, a German pianist, had assured him that he could become the finest pianist in Europe, but a hand injury ended this dream.
Schumann then focused his musical energies on composing.
In 1840, after a long and acrimonious legal battle with Wieck, who opposed the marriage, Schumann married Wieck's daughter Clara.
A lifelong partnership in music began, as Clara herself was an established pianist and music prodigy.
Clara and Robert also maintained a close relationship with German composer Johannes Brahms.
Until 1840, Schumann wrote exclusively for the piano.
Later, he composed piano and orchestral works, and many Lieder (songs for voice and piano).
He composed four symphonies, one opera, and other orchestral, choral, and chamber works.
His best-known works include "CarnavalSymphonic StudiesKinderszenenKreisleriana", and the "Fantasie in C".
Schumann was known for infusing his music with characters through motifs, as well as references to works of literature.
These characters bled into his editorial writing in the "Neue Zeitschrift für Musik" (New Journal for Music), a Leipzig-based publication that he co-founded.
Schumann suffered from a mental disorder that first manifested 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.
What is now thought to have been a combination of bipolar disorder and perhaps mercury poisoning led to "manic" and "depressive" periods in Schumann's compositional productivity.
After a suicide attempt in 1854, Schumann was admitted at his own request to a mental asylum in Endenich near Bonn.
Diagnosed with "psychotic melancholia", he died of pneumonia two years later at the age of 46, without recovering from his mental illness.
Clara Schumann
Clara Schumann (Clara Josephine Wieck; 13 September 1819 – 20 May 1896) was a German pianist, composer and piano teacher.
Regarded as one of the most distinguished pianists of the Romantic era, she exerted her influence over a 61-year concert career, changing the format and repertoire of the piano recital from displays of virtuosity to programs of serious works.
She also composed solo piano pieces, a piano concerto (her Op. 7), chamber music, choral pieces, and songs.
The daughter of a professional pianist and an accomplished singer, she grew up in Leipzig.
She was a child prodigy, trained by her father.
She began touring at age eleven, and was successful in Paris and Vienna, among other cities.
She married composer Robert Schumann, and the couple had eight children.
Together, they encouraged Johannes Brahms and maintained a close relationship with him.
She premiered many works by her husband and by Brahms in public.
After Robert Schumann's early death, she continued her concert tours in Europe for decades, frequently with the violinist Joseph Joachim and other chamber musicians.
Beginning in 1878, she was an influential piano educator at Dr. Hoch's Konservatorium in Frankfurt, where she attracted international students.
She edited the publication of her husband's work.
Schumann died in Frankfurt, but was buried in Bonn beside her husband.
Several films have focused on Schumann's life, the earliest being "TräumereiDreaming") of 1944.
A 2008 film, "Geliebte ClaraBeloved Clara"), was directed by Helma Sanders-Brahms.
An image of Clara Schumann from an 1835 lithograph by Andreas Staub was featured on the 100 Deutsche Mark banknote from 1989 to 2002.
Her compositions have received attention again from the late 20th century, especially around her bicentenary in 2019 which was also the reason for new books and exhibitions.

Question: Where was the place of death of Clara Schumann's husband?
Answer: Endenich