When people are asked to name a famous composer off the top of their heads, their answers may vary from Bach and Beethoven to Mozart and Schumann. Yet the composers named often have three qualities in common. They are talented, white, and predominantly male. So where are the women? Why have none been remembered in... Continue Reading →
10 Facts about Clara Schumann
By Zachariah Friesen Clara Wieck was a child prodigy virtuoso pianist and composer in Leipzig in the early 1800s. Clara Wieck and Robert Schumann met at a concert Clara was playing a concert for a mental institute more specifically Colditz Castle. She was just 9 years old at the time and a decade later, they... Continue Reading →
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