Clara Schumann. Musik als Lebensform

13 September 2019 will be the 200th anniversary of the birth of the most famous 19th-century female German musician. In recent years the edition of the Schumann correspondence has revealed a quantity of hitherto largely unknown sources. This offers a new perspective on the family, artistic and social networks which Clara Schumann built up during her unique career and which supported her. Representatives include her mother Marianne Bargiel, about whom little was previously known, her most important artistic partner, Joseph Joachim, the Mendelssohn family and her children and pupils. For generations Clara Schumann was a stylistic influence on account of her method of piano playing and her creative way of putting together her programmes. Her compositions have appeared in modern editions and are available as recordings. The author, musicologist Professor Beatrix Borchard is one of the leading experts on Clara Schumann.