Robert Schumann was a composer firmly rooted of the Romantic period, often adopting a free “poetic” style with his work. They have a structure and logic, yet represent an expressive“stream of consciousness” rather than being bound by Classical views of form.
During his brief career, he worked as a piano professor at the Leipzig Conservatory under Mendelssohn and also later as a conductor. Starting much later than some other composers, he was in his thirties before he started to compose larger concert works, but he completed four symphonies, a well-known piano concerto, some chamber works, songs and song cycles and a wealth of shorter works for piano. Schumann also had a great interest in literature, philosophy and the arts.
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