Clara was a beautifully gifted pianist. She was one of the first to play from memory and not rely on sheet music. She had many tragedies in her life and was a much better pianist than Robert Schumann who started out to be a lawyer. She had 8 children by him, 4 of which died before her own passing. Robert and one of her sons died in an insane asylum. She lost her hearing towards the end and was confined to a wheelchair but she was a wonderful musician and she deserves recognition. Brava Clara!!! Her eyes in the above portrait are beautiful and full of life and love and sorrow and yes, dreams unfulfilled.

Clara Schumann and Fanny Mendelssohn could have gone much further than they did were it not for the prevailing prejudice. Fanny was severely forbidden by her family to undertake a musical career, her place was in the family. Clara was encouraged both by her father and her husband to compose but had the prejudice built into her and she said "Women can't compose." Fanny, after a visit to Rome where she was very much celebrated, rebelled and told her brother she was going to publish whether he liked it or not. She composed her magnificent Piano Trio but died shortly thereafter. In Clara's case I do think that she saw performance as her true vocation.

No other woman can boast that 3 of the greatest composers of all time admired and loved her. Her husband Robert and Johannes Brahms learned from her and together with Mendelssohn she studied and discussed Bach regularly. Her complete diaries have been published in a book a few years ago by the Schumann foundation. Great insights into her life!

I know Robert Schumann very well, but never heard Clara Schumann's music, until now. Well, it is really outstanding, and it is a crime she has slipped to a footnote, if you let it. It is a mix of herself, her husband, Brahms and Chopin, but all her no matter what. Excellent. ** Would just like to say: I see a lot of this one is better than that one, and so forth, in regards to Robert Schumann. However, it isn't a competition. R.S. was an incredibly creative composer, and certainly had his own burden to bear. They were both fantastic composers, and there is room for all of them.

Floating in the most beautiful Romanticism music. Love Clara!!!

Writing about this music is like dancing about architecture! It is an agglomeration of changing images, colors, thoughts and rhythms for the capsizing of the senses......... :-)

A revelation! I'd never heard more than fragments of music by Clara but this is so beautiful. Hats off - a genius! And what marvellous, passionate piano playing - tender, poetic, and yet robust when it needs to be.

❤❤❤"Bravissima as composer and as pianist (in her life SHE left a great emotional memory like "VIRTUOSA") . I can' say better!! : Dear wonderful Clara!!! Her eyes in the above portrait are beautiful and full of life and love and sorrow and yes, dreams unfulfilled".

such a care worn portrait of this great artist, composer, pianist and wife of a fragile genius---she's obviously been through a lot--and somehow survived.

Such a shame society didn't (and still doesn't really) accept that women can be composers. Most of these pieces are absolutely up there with the greats. If someone told me these were by Liszt or Rachmaninoff I would have believed it in a heartbeat.

Look at this picture. Why listening to her piano. Loook Lookk ... at the emotion in her eyes!!! Her Eyes!!! Her Face!!! Brillance! Emotion! Gifted from God. My Dear Clara

Lyrical and dynamic, the Allegro first movement of the Sonata in G minor's probing and inquiring melodies leave me with a slight sense of apprehension and melancholy. This sonata with its sometimes light caresses never relinquishes the underlying mood of unease and is one of my favourites.

Clara Wieck. Her music is absolutely first rate. It does show much of her husband's style. And her sad beautiful eyes reflect a lifetime of sufferings, joys and intense passions. What a worthy companion to her husband Robert. No wonder Brahms was so attracted to her. Kindred souls.

Thank you for sharing this beautiful music! She is my heroine. I feel thankful to be able to witness that she is finally recognized for all her talent and work. I seek her music when I need inspiration or when the skies are too dark...

The magnificent portrait of Clara S. if by Franz von Lenbach (1878). He has certainly caught her in a sad and compassionate look.

Dear friends, ladies and gentlemen: I wish recommed you a very nice book. It has been written by Schumann's great-great-grandaughter, Mrs Elizabeth Subercaseaux. She is a Chilean journalist who lives now in Pennsylvania. She wrote this book titled " Music for Claire" with historical rigourously. It's edited by Random. I do not know if it's translated in English. But its reading is worthy.

A great collection! Thank you for uploading!

Thank you to Classical Music 11 for posting this. The playing is so clear and expressive. Amazing.

Gorgeous pieces, arguably even better than Robert Schumann; she shaped an era

I am stunned by this portrait. The eyes are soulful and positively haunting. If this is near accuracy, Clara Schumann was a beautiful woman. This music is lovely, too. For some reason I had known that Robert Schumann's wife was Clara, but I didn't know before that she was a composer, and, in her own day a pianist of renown.

my favorite pianist, without question

Love to listen to your music Clara! I did play from your husband's albums in my teens, little did I know of your wonderful music, now I know fifty years after, I'm stunned by your quality and beauty. Oddly I've been inspired by your harmonic touch anyhow, without knowing, but your music has been vividly alive inside me nevertheless, strange.....

Very enjoyable music; wish I'd been listening to this all along.

Does one behold the poignant sadness of Clara Schumann in the painting? Due credit is given to this heroic woman who against all odds arose in nobility, grace and integrity as is very audible in this wonderful music! Thank you for uploading this. Very inspiring. :')

Que talento. .. suave, tranquilo, intenso! Amei.

Música excelsa, de una música y compositora que debe ser escuchada con atención y emoción completa. Clara Shuman creadora nata y absoluta

C. Schumann's Piano Works ignites a fabulous melodic sound of harmony and beauty! A simply wonderful captivating musical treasure.

Fantastic! Great to see these here! Thank you :))

I love her compositions a lot. Some are really beautiful! She and Robert Schumann inspire me to be a great composer like them someday.

Toda la música clásica que existe es,pura "inspiración" para quienes apreciamos *las bellas artes*.

Спасибо,открыла для себя Клару Шуман.

Indeed she was a genius!

Wonderful music, wonderful Clara

really touches the feeling of being in those days in Germany/Austria.. the grandeur, the elegance, military parades, weird literature, musical geniuses and madness everywhere..and have a Weiss beer and wurst at the local Beer hall while you are it.

Genius. Penetrating your heart and soul. Exceptional

When I explore «forgotten composers» from the past, I always find hidden jewels. While only a few composers have made it into history, the musical life in the romantic era must have been overflowing with beautiful music.

Clara is, simply a beast and not simply that.

I hear a marked similarity in emotional quality and intensity, and general feel in many of the compositions of Clara and Robert. To my ear they share the qualities of a beautiful, poetic, sometimes euphoric lyricism and also sometimes express equally beautiful gut-wrenching tragedy. They, however, somehow manage to maintain their own uniqueness.

!! MARAVILLOSA, SIMPLEMENTE MARAVILLOSA !!

her works have grace...muses all around...i wish there were hundreds of claras...

Thankfully, Women Composers ARE being recognized more today. For instance the blockbuster Gladiator has beautiful music in it which was composed by an Australian woman.

she's a fine fine and sadly underrated composer.

Isn't that a portion of her Scherzo no 2 in Cm at 4:38? Anyway that's beautiful! How greatly she combined once piece in to another!

merveilleuse Clara ...

Lovely lady this Clara and a brilliant composer and performer.

I am ashamed to say that I did not know that Clara Schumann ever composed.... With lots of right hand, this music reminds me of some other composers of the same period. For example Ludwig Schunke - who happened to be Robert Schumann's roommate when they were students.... Thanks for posting this very interesting recording !

Thank you!

Very Beautiful

Amazing !

feel we are as we play .......... that makes everything remembered....... as we let our fingers play..... on a key board ... that lllove music is........

Thank you.

Krasyva melodyia da talantlyv zadumshcic , sia rabota po dushe mnie.

i loved you for years Dear Clara. Roberts not bad either. you are a Masterpiece!!!!

This music, is so nice. I hear it and I practice on my piano. (Mixed with Dark Ambient music, because I love it).

Robert and Clara were the best music couple ...

Wunderbar!

These eyes are so beautiful

This music is certainly at least equal to that of many well known composers. I also admire her for her heroic and admirable attitude in life. She took good care of Robert Schuman and her family before and after his mental and emotional unraveling, a very tragic story. I have read that his illness was that of a manic depressive nature, not schizophrenia as previously thought. In either case he could have been treated successfully with medications today. What a tragedy. On the issue of Brahms; they may have had a successful love relationship were it not for his deep seated fear of a relationship with a woman. I'm not saying he was gay -and certainly not all gays feel that way about sexual love with a woman, but like Tchaikovsky, trying to have closeness with a woman only exacerbated his negative feelings I believe-I may be wrong, it was a long time ago that I read about this issue, if someone knows the true story, please let us know. But the more I listen to this music the more impressed I am. She was a phenomenal composer, deeply romantic and very melodic, but at a superficial level she sounds to me more like Schubert . Again, if I compare her to a male composer it's only because those are the only points of reference we have. It was a very chauvinistic society in those days, and only a very extraordinary woman like Clara Wieck would have even been paid much attention to. Gabe Meruelo.

alessandra celletti, liz story, suzanne ciani.... some of our greatest modern composers ever...

She had a busier career than him and had support her husband while he was in mental institution; he could be more well known to us than her, but she was a great pianist and a composer too. Not as popular, as Robert, maybe; and maybe he was more talented, though her talent was great too.

Beautiful 🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹

DIESE MUSIK IST DIE BESTE !

Well, I have now discovered the music I really love, the music that speaks right to my soul:Amy beach, Fanny Mendelsohnn, Clara Scumann. Tzippi Fleisher (21 century, Israel), to mention a few. I now know what I want, and I'll keep looking for it.

Gently, she said: "he is only music, but i love him"

To all the good People who placed a comment on my comments: I admire Clara Schumann for her work, her talent and her life - and especially for taking care of Johannes Brahms - in his young years - and later. Her husband became slowly 'mentally ill', until he retracted from any public life. Robert Schumann is/was a great composer that took the Romantic inspired music another step ahead to modern times. Best regards, Søren

Nannerl Mozart was also a great pianist

This portrait depicts a free and strong woman despite her difficult life. Excellent performance of De Beenhouwer.

:-), this is a very passionate crowd of folks, dropping in. Quite exhilerating i relish those comments.

One compares music, not because of the sex of the composer, but because it's music. If you order a steak in a restaurant and it doesn't taste as good as the last steak you had, you take notice. You don't ask the sex of the cook. It's all in the flavor and texture of the meat.

This music is great. It is more a speaking soul....

Wonderful Music. Would like to hear this orchestrated, bringing the meloncholy and passion to it's full power. Nah, sounds just fine as it is!

danke!!!

A great pianist and composer who performed all over Europe during the mid 1800s. She was not exactly an oppressed female as some are saying, and had a full career as a performer beloved by thousands all across the continent. More popular at the time than her very talented husband, and given his mental health her life with Schumann must have been tough, but her relations with others including Brahms were full of kindness and good music. I am currently reading the diary/letters of Edvard Grieg and he has nothing but good things to say about her piano playing. And Grieg was very picky. He didn't mind saying how much he disliked a performance and even walked out of a few of them when he felt the musicians misinterpreted the music. He was very critical of Liszt for example and said so on a number of occasions, but was very impressed by Clara Schumann's performance particularly of the Robert Schumann A minor piano concerto which she played impeccably according to Grieg.

Hermosoooo

Just Brilliant. Clara was not always forgotten, blame the modern age for that, and the modern tendency to destroy anything they can't understand. We always remember the Schumanns as talented equals.

... una vida extensa, en tiempo, y en producción musical, en su amor por Robert, su esposo y confidente en la música. Virtuosa del piano; canciones, música de cámara y música coral a capella, y concertista. Una existencia admirable y mentora de un feminismo temprano. Johannes Brahms, seguramente un amor platónico de toda la vida ...

I don't think she looks sad in the painting, she looks as she belongs to another place.

Muito boa!

Excelentes composiciones

Viva Clara!!!

The best classical

I'm looking for impromptu in e major sheet music, any suggestion?

Clara Schumann in her long life (she far outlived her more famous husband who was committed to an insane asylum after attempting to commit suicide) performed in more than 2,000 concerts at the piano. Most musicians thought she was the better pianist (and composer) of the two. She was instrumental in Brahm's development and they may have been in love. She was one of the first concert pianists who played from memory (doing so starting at the age of 13).

I read Elfriede's Jelinek book Clara S. I dont know that plot in the book was such a comedy. But music made by this woman is really good.

This is how we discover that there is extraordinary romantic music besides Chopin. Clara and Felix Mendelsohn should be talked about more and their piano music should be heard.

1:01:53 Soirees musicales Op.6 VI Polonaise in A minor (Non troppo Allegro)

haunting eyes.....

Wow that first intro sounds exactly like Chopin Op. 65

❤

I head a bit of God Save the Queen in Marsch in E flat major (@10:58)

Her technique and touch are more far more pleasing, rich and deeply melodic than to my ears than her husband

Con razón Brahms se enamoró de ella

Thank you whoever does this. Mr UTUBE???

Who is the painter?

To my dear brothers you have just been introduced to a brilliant sister composer, and instead of opening your minds and eyes to other great women composers you start to compare her works to male counterparts. Bennemann you said it "Such a shame society didn't (and still doesn't really) accept that women can be composers." Let me correct you 'great composers'. If you truly wish to be enlightened and expand your horizons may I suggest you go to You Tube and just tap in 'Women Composers'. You will encounter many websites, two are very educational one by leongstereosound - 'Three Important Women Composers: Clare Schumann, Amy Beach, and Florence Price'. Jennifer Cluggish-Leong who introduces you to these women is an amazing violinist (as many women are). Then there's 'Rosario Marciano plays piano works by women composers' (pianusko). Hit the Show More and be blown away how many women composers there are, and that's just a fraction. Enjoy your new journey! Have a nice day and follow your bliss.

I'm liking what I'm hearing. Is she among the conservative romantics like Mendelssohn, her husband and Brahms? Cheers from São Paulo, Brazil.

Op.6 V is exactly the theme of Robert's first Davidsbündlertanz...

I DO & TOTALLY AGREE ! Thanks / Mahalos, Sweet Lips finger;.....

This is actually very Shubert-like to my ears. I love it!

Clara es una maravilla poco difundida