Derra - Robert Schumann - Medizinische Wissenschaft, Arzttum Und Menschenbild - ASWV 017 - with Booklet - (Condition 90-95%) - LP Record

Robert Schumann (8 June 1810 – 29 July 1856) was a German composer and an influential music critic. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest composers of the Romantic era. Schumann left the study of law, intending to pursue a career as a virtuoso pianist. He had been assured by his teacher Friedrich Wieck, a German pianist, that he could become the finest pianist in Europe, but a hand injury ended this dream. Schumann then focused his musical energies on composing. Schumann's published compositions were written exclusively for the piano until 1840; he later composed works for piano and orchestra; many Lieder (songs for voice and piano); four symphonies; one opera; and other orchestral, choral, and chamber works. Works such as Carnaval, Symphonic Studies, Kinderszenen, Kreisleriana, and the Fantasie in C are among his most famous. His writings about music appeared mostly in the Neue Zeitschrift für Musik (New Journal for Music), a Leipzig-based publication which he jointly founded. In 1840, Schumann married Friedrich Wieck's daughter Clara, against the wishes of her father, following a long and acrimonious legal battle, which found in favor of Clara and Robert. Clara also composed music and had a considerable concert career as a pianist, the earnings from which, before her marriage, formed a substantial part of her father's fortune. Schumann suffered from a mental disorder, first manifesting itself in 1833 as a severe melancholic depressive episode, which recurred several times alternating with phases of 'exaltation' and increasingly also delusional ideas of being poisoned or threatened with metallic items. After a suicide attempt in 1854, Schumann was admitted to a mental asylum, at his own request, in Endenich near Bonn. Diagnosed with "psychotic melancholia", Schumann died two years later in 1856 without having recovered from his mental illness.

Record Details

Title

Derra - Robert Schumann - Medizinische Wissenschaft, Arzttum Und Menschenbild - ASWV 017

Artist

Ernst Derra & Robert Schumann

Lyrics

Am Flugel: Hans-Helmut Schwarz & Aufnahme Vom

Label

Distar

Releasing Year

1967

Genre

Private Songs

Language

English

Made In

Germany

Manufacture

Distar Records

Serial No.

ASWV 017

Side One

•  Medizinische Wissenschaft, Arzttum und Menschenbild

Side Two

• Kinderszenen op. 15

Specification

Size

10 Inches

Speed

33 RPM

Record Condition

90-95%

Cover Condition

Excellent