Great Composers: Clara Schumann

A look at the woman behind the piano recital.
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Classical Nerd is a weekly video series covering music history, theoretical concepts, and techniques, hosted by composer, pianist, and music history aficionado Thomas Little.
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Music:
- Clara Schumann: Prelude and Fugue in Bb Major, Op. 16 No. 2, performed by Monica Hart
[free recording courtesy www.pianosociety.com]
- Thomas Little: Dance! #2 in E minor, Op. 1 No. 2, performed by Rachel Fellows, Michael King, and Bruce Tippette
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[@just1desi]

Great job on this video. Thank you.

[@resorcinolamide]

She's so cool Clara Schumann is my hero

[@brendaboykin3281]

Thanx, Thomas🌹🌹🌹

[@ElSmusso]

Love her!

[@lokilikescats]

Great love it nerdy 🦙

[@jairantonio3999]

Can you talk a little bit of Chopin or Liszt in your next video? Or do you an agenda for videos?

[@ClassicalNerd]

I always have a few videos in various stages of production at any one time, but I'm always open to suggestions. That said, Liszt is coming up next month, and then Chopin some time after that.

[@carloercollodi]

@@ClassicalNerd what hapened to the liszt video

[@ClassicalNerd]

@@carloercollodi There were some editing/production quality issues that I was just not happy with. I'll remake it at some point when I'm not trying to finish my master's degree and write five papers at once, which is what I'm up to now.

[@JG_1998]

@@ClassicalNerd Do liszt video pls and make sure to talk about his ballade 2 and his more progressive works in it. I'm always worried people will focus on his virtuosity and not his revolutionary pieces.

[@blackmage1276]

​@@JG_1998wish granted

[@PristineCXV]

Clara was based

[@JG_1998]

Clara was, I'm sure, a great pianist, but some of her opinions on other people's music leads me to believe she really wasn't a forward thinking in her musical outlook (and thus incapable of being a truly great composer, even though she has good pieces). Someone who calls Liszt's Sonata a "blind noise" and is unable to appreciate the unparalleled artistic feats of Wagner isn't likely to have been a musical visionary. Even some of the most anti german musicians and composers recognize how revolutionary Wagner was. It's ironic that she was much more musically conservative than all the men around her.