Free Concert for 200th Birthday of composer Robert Schumann | SF State

Submitted by the Event Organizer

SF State alumni celebrate the 200th birthday of the great composer Robert Schumann with FREE performances of his greatest works for piano.

MUSICAL PROGRAM:

• Performed by Vanessa Polger-Sonne: Caprice in E major (by Paganini & Schumann), Novellette No .2 in D major
• Performed by Elliott Dunlap: Dein Angesicht “Thy Image” (by Schumann & Dunlap), Widmung “dedication” (by Schumann & Liszt), Fantasy, Op. 17
• Performed by Carol Schueuer: Novellette No. 8
• Performed by Elenor Barcsak: Vogel als Prophet “The Prophet Bird”, Arabesque, Op. 18, Intermezzo, from Faschingsschwank aus Wien “Carnival Jest of Vienna”

LECTURE: In 1840, after a long and acrimonious legal battle with his piano instructor Friedrich Wieck, Schumann married Wieck’s daughter, pianist Clara Wieck, who also composed music and had a considerable concert career. For the last two years of his life, after an attempted suicide, Robert Schumann was confined to a mental institution at his own request. If you want to find out a little more about this fascinating story, well, you’re in luck because there will also be a short lecture on Clara and Robert Schumann before the concert, given by Lise Ostwald.

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