Great Masters: Robert and Clara Schumann-Their Lives and Music

Meet Robert and Clara Wieck Schumann, the most brilliant, gifted, troubled, and unique couple in the history of concert music. In Great Masters: Robert and Clara Schumann—Their Lives and Music, taught by popular Teaching Company Professor Robert Greenberg, learn why this critic and composer and his pianist wife have earned a distinct place in the annals of Western music. These fascinating lectures take you through not only the Schumanns' unique relationship, but their respectively powerful impact on the course of 19th-century Romantic music.

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