Presumably composed early in Bach's career, it is one of his most important and well-known works, and an important influence on 19th and 20th century passacaglias: Robert Schumann described the variations of the passacaglia as " intertwined so ingeniously that one can never cease to be amazed.

* Robert Schumann – Studies after Caprices by Paganini, Op.

* Symphony No. 1 ( Schumann ) ( Spring ), by Robert Schumann

The discovery of the ultraviolet radiation below 200 nm, named vacuum ultraviolet because it is strongly absorbed by air, was made in 1893 by the German physicist Victor Schumann.

Bruckner is greeted by ( from left to right ): Franz Liszt | Liszt, Richard Wagner | Wagner, Franz Schubert | Schubert, Robert Schumann | Schumann, Carl Maria von Weber | Weber, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven | Beethoven, Christoph Willibald Gluck | Gluck, Joseph Haydn | Haydn, George Frideric Handel | Handel, Johann Sebastian Bach | Bach.

Today's ' core ' repertoire which is performed the most of any cello concertos are by Elgar, Dvořák, Saint-Saëns, Haydn, Shostakovich, Tchaikovsky and Schumann, but there are many more concertos which are performed nearly as often ( see below: cello concertos in the 20th century ).

Schumann also incorporated " La Marseillaise " as a major motif in his overture Hermann und Dorothea, inspired by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and quotes it, in waltz rhythm, in the first movement of Faschingsschwank aus Wien, for solo piano.

The terms " prosecutor's fallacy " and " defense attorney's fallacy " were originated by William C. Thompson and Edward Schumann in the 1987 article Interpretation of Statistical Evidence in Criminal Trials, subtitled The Prosecutor's Fallacy and the Defense Attorney's Fallacy.

** Le Carnaval ( 1910 )— music by Robert Schumann ( orchestrated by Aleksandr Glazunov, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Anatole Liadov, and Alexander Tcherepnin ), choreography by Michel Fokine, set and costumes by Leon Bakst.

** Papillons ( Butterflies )— music by Robert Schumann ( arranged by Nicolai Tcherepnin ), choreography by Michel Fokine, sets by Mstislav Dobuzhinsky, and costumes by Leon Bakst.

He was also renowned for his playing of works by Brahms and Schumann.

During this time, the Lufthansa captain Jürgen Schumann was murdered by the leader of the hijackers in Aden.

Among the most frequently performed piano quintets are those by Robert Schumann, Johannes Brahms, Antonín Dvořák and Dmitri Shostakovich.

Robert Schumann, lithograph by Josef Kriehuber, in 1839, three years before the composition of his piano quintet.

Johannes Brahms was persuaded by Clara Schumann to rework a sonata for two pianos as a piano quintet.

* Robert Schumann wrote some Impromptus, published as Op.

The fantasy was published in 1834 and became very popular ; but on publication, it was criticised by some ( for example Robert Schumann

The Piano Sonata in B minor (), S. 178, is a musical composition for solo piano by Franz Liszt, published in 1854 with a dedication to Robert Schumann.

In 2007 he published a life of the musician Robert Schumann and since then has completed a short biography of T. S. Eliot.

As the first and last pieces in this set are in the same key ( F minor ), and the set bears some resemblance to a 4-movement sonata, these Impromptus have been accused of being a sonata in disguise, notably by Robert Schumann and Alfred Einstein, who claim that Schubert called them Impromptus, and allowed them to be individually published to enhance their sales potential.

The Symphony in C major by German composer Robert Schumann was published in 1847 as his Symphony No. 2, Op.

Completed in 1893 and dedicated to Clara Schumann, the collection was the second to last composition to be published during Brahms ' lifetime.

The first book of songs was warmly praised by Liszt and Schumann, the latter of whom wrote a lengthy review of it in Schumann's paper, Neue Zeitschrift für Musik, which later was published separately.

His son, Daniel Fahrenheit ( the father of the subject of this article ), married Concordia Schumann, daughter of a well-known Danzig business family.

In Leipzig he met Felix Mendelssohn and Robert Schumann, the latter of whom had written an enthusiastic article on the Symphonie fantastique.

Schumann celebrated the event in the Neue Zeitschrift für Musik with an ecstatic article in which, in a phrase destined to become famous, he hailed the symphony for its ' heavenly length '.

Manfred was adapted musically by Robert Schumann in 1852, in a composition entitled Manfred: Dramatic Poem with music in Three Parts, and later by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky in his Manfred Symphony.

Werner's portrayal of the philosophical Dr. Schumann in the 1965 film Ship of Fools won him the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor and nominations for the Academy Award for Best Actor, the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama, and the BAFTA Award for Best Foreign Actor.

* Dvořák: Cello Concerto in B minor / Schumann: Cello Concerto in A Minor ; New Philharmonia Orchestra, Chicago Symphony Orchestra / Daniel Barenboim ( EMI 0724356280526 )

In 1911, he made a well-received New York debut with pieces by Bach, Beethoven, Chopin, and Schumann.

In 1852 he moved to Hanover, at the same time dissociating himself from the musical ideals of the ' New German School ' ( Liszt, Richard Wagner, Hector Berlioz, and their followers, as defined by journalist Franz Brendel ) and instead making common cause with Robert Schumann, Clara Schumann and Johannes Brahms.

Schumann founded the Bread and Puppet Theater in 1963 in New York City.

" Among the notable Bread and Puppet Theater shows directed by Schumann are " Nativity 1992 ", described by The New York Times as " an exemplar of performance folk art ", and " The Divine Reality Comedy ".

After Bread & Puppet's first decade in New York City, Schumann decided to take an offer from Goddard College in Plainfield, Vermont to become the college's first theater-in-residence.

The compositional school focused around Liszt and Wagner – the so called " New German School " – argued in favor of literary inspiration ( see Program music ), while another camp, centered around Schumann, Brahms, and Hanslick argued that " pure " music should follow the forms laid out by Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven.

Other notable alums include dancer Jay Franke, Philadelphia Orchestra cellist John Koen, Broadway's " Porgy and Bess " musical actor Cedric Neal, visual artists Christian Schumann and Chris Arnold, drummer Aaron Comess, and Edie Brickell of the New Bohemians.

Between his conventional education at Charterhouse School and New College, Oxford, where he obtained only a pass degree, Gardiner was a piano student at the Hoch Conservatory in Frankfurt am Main, where he was taught by Iwan Knorr and Lazzaro Uzielli, who had been a pupil of Clara Schumann.

28, Sonata No. 2 and Polonaise in A-flat ; Beethoven ’ s Moonlight Sonata, Brahms ’ Variations on a Theme of Paganini, and Francks ’ s Prelude, Choral and Fugue ; Schumann ’ s Fantasy, Op.

Hans Conrad Schumann ( March 28, 1942 – June 20, 1998 ) was an East German soldier who famously defected to West Germany during the construction of the Berlin Wall in 1961.

The plane flew on via Larnaca to Dubai, and then to Aden, where flight captain Jürgen Schumann, whom the hijackers deemed not cooperative enough, was brought before an improvised " revolutionary tribunal " and executed on 16 October.

* October 6 — Friedrich Wieck, music teacher and father of Clara Schumann ( b. 1785 )

In October 1838 Thalberg became acquainted with Robert Schumann.

129, by Robert Schumann was completed in a period of only two weeks, between 10 October and 24 October 1850, shortly after Schumann became the music director at Düsseldorf.