Definition of Robert Schumann

1. Noun. German romantic composer known for piano music and songs (1810-1856).

Exact synonyms: Robert Alexander Schumann, Schumann
Generic synonyms: Composer

Lexicographical Neighbors of Robert Schumann

Robert Mills
Robert Mitchum
Robert Morris
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Robert Orr
Robert Owen
Robert Peary
Robert Peel
Robert Penn Warren
Robert R. Livingston
Robert Ranke Graves
Robert Redford
Robert Robinson
Robert Schumann (current term)
Robert Scott
Robert Southey
Robert Traill Spence Lowell Jr.
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Robert Tyre Jones
Robert Van de Graaff
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Robert Walpole
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Literary usage of Robert Schumann

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Musical Letters from Abroad: Including Detailed Accounts of the Birmingham by Lowell Mason (1854)
"In a recent number of one of the musical papers in New York, Robert Schumann is said to be an imitator of Mendelssohn. A strange charge, indeed, ..."

2. Musical Letters from Abroad: Including Detailed Accounts of the Birmingham by Lowell Mason (1854)
"Mendelssohn and Robert Schumann. BERLIN, April 5,1852. In a recent number of one of the musical papers in New York, Robert Schumann is said to be an ..."

3. Rural Rides in the Counties of Surrey, Kent, Sussex, Hants, Berks, Oxford by William Cobbett (1908)
"By Robert Schumann. Translated, Edited, and Annotated by FR ... Portrait of Robert Schumann, photographed from a Crayon by Bendemann. ..."

4. Music: Devoted to the Art, Science, Technic and Literature of Music (1893)
"... Robert Schumann, AFTER HIS CORRESPONDENCE WITH CLARA WIECK. SCHUMANN'S music, although now nearly fifty years old, is becoming more modern, ..."

5. A History of the Pianoforte and Pianoforte Players by Oskar Bie, Ernest Edward Kellett, Edward Woodall Naylor (1899)
"Some years after Schubert's death, in November 1831, a certain Robert Schumann published as his first work some Variations, whose theme was formed on the ..."

6. Story-lives of Master Musicians by Harriette Moore Brower (1922)
"XI Robert Schumann MANY of the composers whose life stories we have read were surrounded by musical atmosphere from their earliest years; Robert Schumann ..."

7. Story-lives of Master Musicians by Harriette Moore Brower (1922)
"XI Robert Schumann MANY of the composers whose life stories we have read were surrounded by musical atmosphere from their earliest years; Robert Schumann ..."

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