Clara Schumann’s Variations on a Theme by Robert Schumann is more than just a dazzling set of piano variations—it’s a love letter in music. She took a theme from Robert’s Bunte Blätter and transformed ...

Clara Schumann, a ground-breaking musician, was far more than the devoted wife of composer Robert Schumann. As a virtuoso performer, she enjoyed a 60-year career, giving more than 1500 concerts and ...

Nancy B. Reich, whose seminal 1985 biography of Clara Schumann established her as an important musical figure independent of her husband, composer Robert Schumann, and helped turn the musicological ...

Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. It is these three pianists—Fanny Davies (1861-1934), Ilona Eibenschütz (1873-1967), and Adelina de Lara ...