Life and career: oioi
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| [[File:Schumannhaus ALT.JPG|thumb|upright=1.25|alt=Exterior of substantial town house seen from the square outside it|Schumann's birth house, now the [[Robert Schumann House]], after an anonymous colourised lithograph]] | [[File:Schumannhaus ALT.JPG|thumb|upright=1.25|alt=Exterior of substantial town house seen from the square outside it|Schumann's birth house, now the [[Robert Schumann House]], after an anonymous colourised lithograph]] |
| Robert Schumann{{refn|group=n|name=alexander}} was born in [[Zwickau]], in the [[Kingdom of Saxony]] (today the state of [[Saxony]]), into an affluent middle class family.<ref name=perrey6>Perrey, p. 6</ref> He was the fifth and last child of Johanna Christiane (née Schnabel) and [[August Schumann]]. The latter, a lexicographer, author and publisher of chivalric romances made considerable sums from his translations of writers such as [[Cervantes]], [[Walter Scott]] and [[Lord Byron]] into German.<ref name=grove/> Robert, his favourite child, was able to spend many hours exploring the classics of literature in his father's collection.<ref name=grove/> Intermittently, between the ages of three and five-and-a-half, he was placed with foster parents, as his mother had contracted [[typhus]].<ref name=perrey6/> | Robert Schumann{{refn|group=n|name=alexander}} was born in [[Zwickau]], in the [[Kingdom of Saxony]] (today the state of [[Saxony]]), into an affluent middle class family.<ref name=perrey6>Perrey, p. 6</ref> He was the fifth and last child of Johanna Christiane (née Schnabel) and [[August Schumann]]. The local newspaper carried the announcement, "On 8th June to Herr August Schumann, notable citizen and bookseller here, a little son".<ref>Chissell, p. 1</ref> August, not only a bookseller but also a lexicographer, author and publisher of chivalric romances, made considerable sums from his translations of writers such as [[Cervantes]], [[Walter Scott]] and [[Lord Byron]] into German.<ref name=grove/> Robert, his favourite child, was able to spend many hours exploring the classics of literature in his father's collection.<ref name=grove/> Intermittently, between the ages of three and five-and-a-half, he was placed with foster parents, as his mother had contracted [[typhus]].<ref name=perrey6/> |
| At the age of seven Schumann began studying general music and piano with Johann Gottfried Kuntzsch, a teacher at the Zwickau high school. Throughout his childhood and youth his love of music and literature ran in tandem, with poems and dramatic works produced alongside small-scale compositions, mainly piano pieces and songs.<ref name=hall>Hall, George. [https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780199579037.001.0001/acref-9780199579037-e-6003 "Schumann, Robert"], ''The Oxford Companion to Music'', Oxford University Press, 2011 {{subscription}}</ref> He was not a musical child prodigy like [[Mozart]] or [[Felix Mendelssohn|Mendelssohn]],<ref name=perrey6/> but his talent as a pianist was evident from an early age: in 1850 the {{lang|de|Allgemeine musikalische Zeitung}} (Universal Musical Journal) printed a biographical sketch of Schumann which included an account from contemporary sources that even as a boy he possessed a special talent for portraying feelings and characteristic traits in melody: | At the age of seven Schumann began studying general music and piano with Johann Gottfried Kuntzsch, a teacher at the Zwickau high school. Throughout his childhood and youth his love of music and literature ran in tandem, with poems and dramatic works produced alongside small-scale compositions, mainly piano pieces and songs.<ref name=hall>Hall, George. [https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780199579037.001.0001/acref-9780199579037-e-6003 "Schumann, Robert"], ''The Oxford Companion to Music'', Oxford University Press, 2011 {{subscription}}</ref> He was not a musical child prodigy like [[Mozart]] or [[Felix Mendelssohn|Mendelssohn]],<ref name=perrey6/> but his talent as a pianist was evident from an early age: in 1850 the {{lang|de|Allgemeine musikalische Zeitung}} (Universal Musical Journal) printed a biographical sketch of Schumann which included an account from contemporary sources that even as a boy he possessed a special talent for portraying feelings and characteristic traits in melody: |
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