Robert Schumann: Scenes From Goethe's Faust

Robert Schumann By Leon Botstein Written for the concert Robert Schumann: Scenes from Goethe’s Faust (1853), performed on April 9, 2010 at Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center. Robert Schumann was perhaps the first in a long line of great nineteenth- and twentieth-century composers whose ambitions were as much literary as they were musical. One…

Robert Schumann, Szenen aus Goethes Faust By Paul Griffiths Written for the concert Robert Schumann: Scenes from Goethe’s Faust (1853), performed on April 9, 2010 at Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center. In October 1838, at a funeral mass in Vienna where Mozart’s Requiem was being performed, Schumann found himself standing next to the composer’s…