ROBERT SCHUMANN

BORN

• Zwickau, Saxony, Germany
• Johanna Christiane Schnabel
• Fourth child
• August Schumann

CHILDHOOD

• Not a child prodigy
• Private school for four years
• Then left
• Public

COLLEDGE

• He went to a normal college
• Left from family pressure
• Leipzig for law
• Instead did music
• Friedrich Weick (father of his bride)
• Soon left for Heidelberg

HORRIBLE ADULTHOOD

• Drugs and smoking
• Hand injury
• Severe psychotic episodes
• Attempted suicide
• Later admitted to a mental asylum

MARRIAGE

• Ernestine Von Fricken
• Fell in love with Clara Weick
• 8 Children!

WIFE

BRAHMS

• Discoverer
• Family friends
• Helps family when in need

KINDERSZENEN

• https://youtube.com/watch?v=yibf6QNjgGU&feature
• 1838
• For his wife

CARNIVAL

TRÄUMEREI

DEATH

• pneumonia
• Died after two years in a mental asylum
• Attempted suicide

THANKS

BIBLIOGRAPHY

• Wikipedia
• Britannica
• NPR
• Google