Tag: Court Singer

  • PROGRAM NOTES: FLORIAN BOESCH AND MIAH PERSSON

    PROGRAM NOTES: FLORIAN BOESCH AND MIAH PERSSON

    The Songs of Robert Schumann Robert Schumann was a composer steeped in literature. His compositions bear the dual imprint of both German musical and literary Romanticism. Literature was the family business, one might say, as his father, August Schumann, was both a publisher and a bookseller in Zwickau, Saxony, where the composer grew up. He…