“The marriage to Robert was a huge part of Clara’s life, and I wanted to reflect that in the programme,” says Kanneh-Mason. Isata Kanneh-Mason has included on her album Clara Schumann’s transcriptions of two of her husband’s best-loved songs, ‘Widmung’ (‘Dedication’) and ‘Mondnacht’ (‘Moonlit Night’). Transcriptions of ‘Widmung’ and ‘Mondnacht’ The marriage took place the day before Clara’s 21st birthday. The following year Robert and Clara were married at last – after a long battle with Clara’s father, who had opposed the match and done all that he could to separate the pair. Robert Schumann published the second one as a supplement to his journal, the Neue Zeitschrift Für Musik.
11 were written in 1839 while Clara Schumann was on tour in Paris. It seems a very mature piece and sometimes I can’t believe how young she was when she wrote it.”
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“One can see what a virtuoso she must have been – it’s full of enormous leaps and crazy octave passages. “The piano writing is fiendishly difficult,” says Kanneh-Mason. It incorporates some startlingly original touches, including a cello solo in the slow movement (perhaps this detail later served as a conceptual example for her friend Johannes Brahms in his own Piano Concerto No. She gave its premiere in the Leipzig Gewandhaus aged 16, conducted by Felix Mendelssohn. Listen to Isata Kanneh-Mason’s album Romance: The Piano Music Of Clara Schumann on Apple Music and Spotify now.Ĭentral to Isata Kanneh-Mason’s debut album, Romance, devoted to Clara Schumann’s music, is one of her most famous works: the Piano Concerto, begun when she was only 13. These are two defining strands to her character.” You can tell from it what a romantic person she was, but also how strong she was. “Her music reminds me of Chopin and Mendelssohn, but at the same time it sounds like no one else. Her strength across her long life impressed, inspired and hugely intrigued me.” “It’s fascinating that 200 years ago Clara could maintain such a long career as a pianist while having a large family and coping with the difficulties of her husband’s mental illness. “She was a very strong woman and had seven children – and I come from a family of seven siblings,” she says. She released her debut album, Romance – The Piano Music of Clara Schumann, to celebrate the 200th anniversary of Clara’s birth in 2019. The pianist Isata Kanneh-Mason is on a mission to bring Clara Schumann’s music to wide attention at last. Yet until recently she has been remembered chiefly as …Mrs Robert Schumann.
Her life in music had many facets, all of them significant in different ways. She grew up to be one of the most important pianists of her era and a composer with a distinctive personal voice. Clara Schumann, née Wieck, was born in Leipzig on 13 September 1819 and shot to fame as a child prodigy, performing in Paris, Vienna and across Europe in her teens.
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