鋼琴家伉儷：羅伯特

1、Robert Schumann Herald 使者 of a New Poetic AgeFrom thetime he was little, Robert Schumann knew that he wanted to write. The only question was whether to write words or music.Schumann ' s father was an author and book dealer in the German town of Zwickau, which is where Robert Schumann was born in

2、 1810. Schumann grew up surrounded by books, which he loved, but he also loved music. As a kid he took piano, flute長(zhǎng)笛 and cello 大提琴 lessons,and he started composing.When he was a teenager, Schumann put out his first book of poems and essays. Schumann still wasn ' t quite sure what he wanted to b

3、e when he grew up, but clearly, lawyer was not at the top of the list. Even though he studied law at the University of Leipzig, he almost never went to class. But in Leipzig, he took piano lessons with a teacher named Friedrich Wieck, and that changed his life.Schumann practiced very hard, maybe eve

4、n too hard. He attached系上 a mechanical contraption 精巧的裝置 to one of his fingers trying to stretch 伸展 it. Instead, Schumann did damage to his hand, which finished off his piano career for good永久地 .It didn 't matter that much to Friedrich Wieck that Schumann wouldn 't have a great career as a p

5、ianist, because the only one of his students Wieck was really interested in was his daughter, Clara. Robert Schumann became pretty interested in Clara too, but in a different way. In spite of the fact that she was nine years younger than he was, Robert Schumann and Clara Wieck fell in love.On her 18

6、th birthday he proposed求婚, but Clara 's father refused tolet them get married. It wasn 't until years later, after taking Clara's fatherto court, that Robert and Clara Schumann' s wedding finally took place.That was in 1840, which became Robert Schumann's “year of song.In that on

7、e year, he wrote well over a hundred of them. The German word for this kind of songs is “ Lieder 民謠.” In English we sometimes call them “art songs. ” They ' re the ultimate 最根本的 combination of music and poetry, in other words, a perfect fit for Schumann. After the year of song, Schumann went off

8、 on a couple of other musical binges. The next year he worked on three out of his four numbered symphonies交響曲 .The year after that was Schumann's year for chamber 室內(nèi)樂(lè) music,compositions for small groups of instruments樂(lè)器, meant to be playedin private homes or small concert settings.Schumann did become a writer as well as a composer. He was a well-known music journalist, who told everyone that Johannes Brahms and Frederic Chopin were great musical geniuses