Английский язык. 11 класс (О. В. Афанасьева и др.)
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| 10. Schumann, Robert (June 8, 1810 – July 29, 1856) was a German
composer, aesthete and influential music critic. He is one of the most famous Romantic composers of the 19th century. He had hoped to pursue a career as a virtuoso pianist, having been assured by his teacher Friedrich Wieck that he could become the finest pianist in Europe after only a few years of studying with him. However, a hand injury prevented those hopes from being realized, and he decided to focus his musical energies on composition. His published compositions were, until 1840, all for the piano; he later composed works for piano and orchestra, many lieders (songs for voice and piano), four symphonies, an opera, and other orchestral, choral and chamber works. Schumann was born in Zwickau, Saxony the fifth and last child of the family. His father was a bookseller, and his boyhood was spent in the cultivation of literature quite as much as it was spent in music. Schumann himself said that he had begun to compose before the age of seven. At the age of 14, he wrote an essay on the aesthetics of music and also contributed to a volume, edited by his father, titled Portraits of Famous Men. While still at school in Zwickau he read the works of the German poets-philosophers Friedrich Schiller and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, as well as Byron and the Greek tragedians. Schumann’s interest in music was piqued as a child by the performance of Ignaz Moscheles playing at Carlsbad, and he developed an interest in 143 the works of Beethoven, Franz Schubert and Felix Mendelssohn later. His father, however, who had encouraged the boy’s musical aspirations, died in 1826, and neither his mother nor his guardian would encourage a career for him in music. In 1828, he left school, and after a tour, during which he met Heinrich Heine in Munich, he went to Leipzig to study law. In 1829, his law studies continued in Heidelberg. Once he wrote to his mother, “My whole life has been a struggle between Poetry and Prose, or call it Music and Law.” жүктеу/скачать 0,65 Mb. Достарыңызбен бөлісу:
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