Robert Schumann ended his career and life: in an asylum, the result of mental illness. The favorite Romantic poets for the composers of Lieder were: Goethe and Heine were two of the leading nineteenth-century writers whose poetry was set by Lieder composers.

Robert Schumann

Schumann suffered from a mental disorder that first manifested in 1833 as a severe melancholic depressive episode—which recurred several times alternating with phases of “exaltation” and increasingly also delusional ideas of being poisoned or threatened with metallic items.

He and his wife, Clara, collected poetry by the great poets of the time and read them together. He became one of the great songwriters ever.” Schumann first met Clara Wieck when she was 9 years old. He was taking music lessons from her father.

Lieder

The plural German noun Lieder (singular Lied) simply means “songs” – any kind of songs

German: variant of Leder, from the Eastern Middle German word leyder ‘leather’. North German: nickname for a courageous person or a leader, from Middle Low German leider, leder ‘leader’.

: a work of art dealing with evening or night especially : a dreamy pensive composition for the piano — compare aubade sense 3.

John Field

Basically, the Nocturne ending is ambiguous, but most signs point to Juliet driving herself crazy with her dream to become a successful musician. Deep down, she knew she would never achieve that dream.

David Paich

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• Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827)
• Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750)
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–91)
• Johannes Brahms (1833–97)
• Richard Wagner (1813–83)
• Claude Debussy (1862–1918)
• Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840–93)
• Frédéric Chopin (1810–49)

The song’s popularity is aided by the fact that it’s actually a very well-crafted piece of music, with driving drum loops, layered harmonies, and an anthemic chorus. The lyrics can be a bit hard to make out, and as is often the case with 80s tracks, even once you hear the words they can be a bit nonsensical.

Jacob Lawrence was an American painter, and the most widely acclaimed African American artist of the 20th century. He is best known for his ‘Migration Series.

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• Liu Wei.
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During the 1950s African American art was dominated by Abstract Expressionism and realism; their significant practitioners included Charles Alston, Romare Bearden and James Wells.

The Black Arts Movement, also known as the Black Aesthetics Movement, is often regarded as as the artistic and cultural sister movement of the Black Power Movement of the late 1960s and early 1970s