Schembari, Clara
Der Dichter Der Natur
In this album, conceived on the suggestions of nature that Schumann was able to fully grasp and describe, an ideal red thread is traced that retraces a large part of the life and career of a man and a musician gifted with an extraordinary ability to transform the idea into an immediately comprehensible expression and capable of penetrating, captivating, the soul of the listener. Thanks to the family environment devoted to culture, the young Robert finds within the domestic walls the encouragement to study the piano but also of German poets and writers. Among these, his acquaintance with Jean-Paul Richter (1763-1825), an author destined to become a true guiding spirit for the Composer, appears of notable interest. Music and literature fill the mind of the young man in equal measure, who is struck by serious bereavements, losing his sister and his father, victims of those mental problems that will also afflict, as is known, the Musician, prey to deep crises of melancholy, sinister omens of the ghosts that would cross the last years of a tormented life. His mother convinced him to enroll in the law faculty in Leipzig, where Robert instead met Friedrich Wieck, a well-known piano professor who, thanks to a very strict method, led his daughter Clara to become a true virtuoso of the instrument. A double encounter that would mark Robert's entire life. Literature, piano, a love long opposed by Clara's father, taking refuge in the observed counterpoint of his beloved Bach, in the readings of Novalis and Hoffmann would form a multifaceted personality fully devoted to the most sincere artistic expression. Precisely in these years, approximately from 1835 to 1840, the year of his long-awaited marriage to Clara, Schumann would produce a series of indisputable masterpieces for the piano, in which the most sincere suggestions of the Romantic era would converge, united by the fire of an inspiration forged by passion, sentiment, literary filter and in an idea of ??symbiosis with nature that makes the German probably the most "romantic" among the Romantics. A poet (as is well known, he was also a writer and an attentive music critic) who expresses himself with sound, and who often borrows from nature those suggestions that make his works perfectly correspond to his spirit and to that of a cultural climate.