Union Maid
"Union Maid" is a union song, with lyrics written by Woody Guthrie in response to a request for a union song from a female point of view.
The melody is the 1907 standard "Red Wing" by Kerry Mills, which was in turn adapted from Robert Schumann's piano composition "The Happy Farmer, Returning From Work" in his 1848 Album for the Young, Opus 68.
Along with "Talking Union", this song was one of the many pro-union songs written by Guthrie during his time as a member of the Almanac Singers.
Another member, Pete Seeger writes,
"I'm proud to say I was present when 'Union Maid' was written in June, 1940, in the plain little office of the Oklahoma City Communist Party.
Bob Wood, local organizer, had asked Woody Guthrie and me to sing there the night before for a small group of striking oil workers.
Early next morning, Woody got to the typewriter and hammered out the first two verses of 'Union Maid' set to a European tune that Robert Schumann arranged for piano ('The Merry Farmer') back in the early 1800s.
Of course, it's the chorus that really makes it - its tune, 'Red Wing,' was copyrighted early in the 1900s."
The song's final verse, on women's role in unions was written later by Lampell and other Almanac members.
In performance, this verse has been adapted over the years to reflect changing attitudes, or dropped altogether.
An alternate version, credited to Nancy Katz, appears in the 1973 (34th) and subsequent editions of the IWW's "Little Red Songbook", and starts, "A woman’s struggle is hard, even with a union card".
; another
version in the 1985 song anthology "Carry It On!"
edited by Seeger and Bob Reiser urges women to "Like Mother Jones, bestir them bones".
The 1973 single "Part of the Union" by British rock band
The Strawbs, draws on similar themes to Guthrie's song to the extent that some sections - in particular the second verse - could be considered as a cover version.
This song has also been adopted by supporters of the Philadelphia Union soccer team, who will sing the chorus of the song outside of and at matches.
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Robert Schumann
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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.
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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.
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Question: Where was the place of death of the composer of song Union Maid?
Answer: Endenich