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…parents, Schumann was the youngest of six children. His father, August Schumann, was a successful novelist and publisher, and his mother, Christiane Schumann, was a music lover. His father’s literary…

…Count Erdmann II of Promnitz in Sorau, now part of Poland. His tenure was brief, and after a short period of travels, he entered the service of Duke Johann Wilhelm…

Johann Strauss Sr., or Johann Baptist Strauss, was an Austrian musical luminary who rose to fame in the 19th century. As the foremost composer of Viennese waltzes, Strauss wielded an…

…a distinguished family of musicians. His father, Johann Ambrosius Bach, was a town musician, and it was under his tutelage that the young Johann first started to play the violin….

…Born in Vienna, Austria on October 25, 1825, Johann Strauss II was the eldest son of Johann Strauss I, a respected composer in his own right. However, the elder Strauss…

Clara Schumann, nee Wieck, was a German pianist and composer in the Romantic music era, in addition to being the wife of composer Robert Schumann. She was an exceptional talent,…

A figure of immense musical prowess, Johann Nepomuk Hummel was an Austrian composer and virtuoso pianist whose body of work beautifully encapsulates the transition from the Classical to the Romantic…