Brahms wrote to Clara Schumann that the inspiration for the dramatic entry of the horn in the introduction to the last movement of his First Symphony was an alphorn melody he heard while vacationing in the Rigi area of Switzerland.

He once wrote that the Requiem " belonged to Schumann ".

Franz Liszt, Robert Schumann, Johannes Brahms, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Boris Blacher, Andrew Lloyd Webber, George Rochberg and Witold Lutosławski, among others, wrote well-known variations on these themes.

Robert Schumann wrote his Märchenbilder for viola and piano.

Schumann, despite being a pianist-composer, wrote a piano concerto in which virtuosity is never allowed to eclipse the essential lyrical quality of the work.

Robert Schumann wrote the cantata Paradise and the Peri.

Eventually, the WGA awarded Henkin credit, and Levinson himself threatened to quit the Guild, claiming that David Mamet wrote every line of dialogue, as well as creating the characters of Motss and Schumann, and originating most of the scenes set in Hollywood and all of the scenes set in Nashville.

Other classical composers who wrote polonaises or pieces in polonaise rhythm include Johann Sebastian Bach, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Michał Kleofas Ogiński, Franz Schubert, Vincenzo Bellini, Carl Maria von Weber, Robert Schumann, Franz Liszt, Moritz Moszkowski, Friedrich Baumfelder, Mauro Giuliani, Modest Mussorgsky, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky and Alexander Scriabin.

Schumann had begun several piano concerti before this one: In 1828, he had begun one in E-flat major ; from 1829-31 he worked on one in F major, and in 1839, he wrote one movement of a concerto in D minor.

In 1841, Schumann wrote a fantasy for piano and orchestra, his Phantasie.

Following this concerto, Schumann wrote two other pieces for piano and orchestra: the Introduction and Allegro Appassionato in G major ( Op.

He never performed Schumann's Violin Concerto in D minor, which Schumann wrote especially for him, or Dvořák's Violin Concerto in A minor.

Many other Romantic composers wrote pieces in the form, well known examples including the concerti by Robert Schumann, Edvard Grieg, Johannes Brahms, and Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.

From the Romantic period Robert Schumann and Franz Liszt each wrote a piano toccata-the ambitious Schumann piece being considered one of the most technically difficult works in the repertoire and the foremost representative of the genre in the 1800s.

* Robert Schumann wrote some Impromptus, published as Op.

Mention should be made of two great composers of the era who wrote their major works in other genres yet also composed operas: Franz Schubert and Robert Schumann.

Schumann only wrote one opera, Genoveva, first staged in Leipzig in 1850.

Famous composers who wrote cadenzas for this popular concerto include Beethoven ( WoO 58 ), Charles-Valentin Alkan, Johannes Brahms ( WoO 16 ), Johann Nepomuk Hummel, Feruccio Busoni and Clara Schumann.

Brahms's first known use of the title Ein deutsches Requiem was in an 1865 letter to Clara Schumann in which he wrote that he intended the piece to be " eine Art deutsches Requiem " ( a sort of German Requiem ).

In his instrumental works, Fibich generally wrote in the vein of the German romantics, first falling under the influence of Weber, Mendelssohn and Schumann and later Wagner.

As a member of folk-rock band Redgum, Schumann wrote and sang another hit song about Australians in Vietnam: " I was only 19 ", released in 1983.

Schumann was reported to have expressed displeasure with the work (" I did not like the first Sonata for Violin and Piano ; so I wrote a second one, which I hope has turned out better ").

Robert Schumann used part of " La Marseillaise " for his 1840 setting ( Op.

With a confidence lacking in the original frenetic effort, the second ( new ) part seeks to contextualise Wagner ’ s anti-Jewish feelings in the setting of later nineteenth-century German politics, whilst continuing to snipe at the dead Mendelssohn and Meyerbeer and bringing in other dead musicians, including Schumann, on Wagner ’ s side.

The setting by Schumann ( his opus 42 ) is now the most widely-known.

Robert Schumann composed a setting of a German translation of Burns's poem in 1840.

Zwickau, known as the city of Automobiles and Robert Schumann, is the cradle of the Saxon automotive industry with an over one hundred year old tradition.

The following year the town of Schumannsville was established by German immigrants and named after August Schumann.

The following year he was invited to conduct the opening work in Covent Garden's international season, Don Giovanni, with a cast that included Mariano Stabile, Elisabeth Schumann and Heddle Nash.

" Prior to that year Schumann had completed no chamber music at all with the exception of an early piano quartet ( in 1829 ).

That same year she married actor Paul Schumann, with whom she had three more children.

The second movement used some previously abandoned musical material written in 1854, the year of Schumann's mental collapse and attempted suicide, and of Brahms's move to Düsseldorf to assist Clara Schumann and her young children.

Clara Schumann, wife of composer Robert Schumann, and herself an eminent pianist and composer, spent several months in Paris during the year 1839.

Friedrich Wieck, age 45, in the year when he met with Robert Schumann for the first time.

There she met Eugenie Schumann the same year.

This year was a busy one for Schumann, in which he also revised his 1841 symphony in D minor, and wrote his first two violin sonatas, a number of songs and choral works including Der Rose Pilgerfahrt, and also composed his overtures Julius Caesar and Hermann und Dorothea.

As evidence of this, Jaffé has pointed out that the central movement of Sonata No. 7 opens with a theme based on a Robert Schumann lied, ' Wehmut ' (' Sadness ', which appears in Schumann's Liederkreis, Op.

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 ).

When the noise of the shops subsides, one can hear the music of Robert Schumann ( 1810 – 1856 ), which is a special cultural event of art and history for all visitors to the city.

He is best known outside Germany for his early lyric poetry, which was set to music in the form of Lieder ( art songs ) by composers such as Robert Schumann and Franz Schubert.

Early in his career Wolf modelled his lieder after those of Franz Schubert and Robert Schumann, particularly in the period around his relationship with Vally Franck ; in fact, they were good enough imitations to pass off as the real thing, which he once attempted, though his cover was blown too soon.

Throughout the movement, there is a simplicity of presentation of the melody and themes, which Robert Schumann compared to " Beethoven's epigrams ", ideas which could be extended, had the composer chosen to.

In part, it is because Berlioz rejected writing the very symmetrical melodies then in academic fashion, and instead looked for melodies which were, " so intense in every note, as to defy normal harmonization ", as Schumann put it.

His careful attention to the words of the poet, the manner in which his music seems to grow from those words, the perfect coincidence of the musical with the metrical accent, cause Lawes's songs to be regarded by some as on a level with those of Robert Schumann or Franz Liszt.

This lowest-frequency ( and highest-intensity ) mode of the Schumann resonance occurs at a frequency of approximately 7. 83 Hz, but this frequency can vary slightly from a variety of factors, such as solar-induced perturbations to the ionosphere, which comprises the upper wall of the closed cavity.

Schumann resonance amplitude records show significant diurnal and seasonal variations which in general coincide in time with the times of the day-night transition ( the terminator ).

The link between Schumann resonance and temperature is lightning flash rate, which increases nonlinearly with temperature.

Goldmark's chamber music, in which the influences of Schumann and Mendelssohn are paramount, although critically well received in his lifetime, is now rarely heard.

It was a glorious occasion, after which about 100 of the composer's friends, the Joachims, Clara Schumann, the Dietrichs, Max Bruch and others gathered at the Bremen Rathskeller.

A number of Joachim's composer colleagues, including Schumann, Brahms, Bruch, and Dvořák composed concerti with Joachim in mind, many of which entered the standard repertory.

The most unusual work written for Joachim was the F-A-E Sonata, a collaboration between Schumann, Brahms, and Albert Dietrich, based upon the initials of Joachim's motto, Frei aber Einsam ( which can be translated as " free but lonely ", " free but alone ", or " free but solitary ").

In addition to his many recordings of works by Chopin, Schumann, and Liszt, he made important recordings of music by Weber, Mendelssohn, Franck, Debussy and others, and conducted the first complete recording of the Brandenburg Concertos, in which he performed the lengthy solo cadenza of the fifth concerto on a modern piano.

Brahms ' biographers often note that the first sketches for the dramatic opening movement followed quickly on the heels of the 1854 suicide attempt of the composer's dear friend and mentor, Robert Schumann, an event which caused great anguish for Brahms.

He finally completed the concerto two years after Schumann's death in 1856, by which time his relationship ( which was most likely platonic ) with Schumann's widow, Clara Schumann, had grown into a lifelong friendship.

In all four movements there are some stylistic similarities with Beethoven's Symphony No. 5 ( including the dissonant, furious mood of the first movement and the string pizzicatos in the third ), which were also noted by Schumann.