Jeremy ’s Reviews > Clara Schumann: The Artist and the Woman > Status Update

When I am able to practice regularly, then I feel completely in my element; it is as though an entirely different mood comes over me, much lighter, freer, and everything seems to be happier and more gratifying.
The practice of art is, after all, a great part of my inner self. To me, it is the very air I breathe.
-Clara Schumann

Program from her last concert. March 12. 1891.

Her first performance at the Leipzig Gewandhaus in 1828 (which I’ll go to in Leipzig) and her last public performance in Frankfurt in 1891 (at the now Clara Schumann Haal which I went to in August 2026.

Lorelei!

In such songs as Volkslied, Sie liebten sich beide and Ich stand in dunklen Traumen the postludes are eloquent resolutions of the sorrows expressed in the songs.

Some of her songs have the brilliant accompaniments (I’d say!) that one might expect from a concert artist but they do not overpower the voice.
Er ist gekommen
Geheimes Flustern
Am strande
Wow.

Op 17 trio for piano, violin and cello
Composed in Dresden. She had played much chamber music and with Robert had begun to study the chamber music of Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven but had never ventured to compose in this genre herself. This is her remedy of that.
During their Dresden time, she organized a chamber music series-first of its kind there.

Written and loved by herself. Published in 1879. Performed frequently.

Piano concerto in Am Op 7. Began when Clara was 13 yrs old!
Second mvmt is a nocturne with cello accompaniment. Should learn it.

Wow. Clara met Chopin and Chopin liked and praised her playing. She championed some of his work in the the early years and often played them on her concerts. In later years there was always at least one of his works on her programs. Concerto in Fm was the last concerto the 71 yr old played in public on 11/7/1890.