We've gone through akg-images' impressive collection of music-related
images to mark the 200th anniversay of the birth of the Romantic
composer Robert Schumann, born 8 June 1810.
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Schumann at 29: note the jaunty earring!
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A younger Schumann in a portrait miniature
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A statue to Schumann in his birth town of Zwickau
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Schumann at forty
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Schumann's birthplace in Zwickau in a 1910 drawing
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The private asylum near Bonn where Schumann was admitted after
attempting suicide and where he spent the last two years of
his life
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Zwickau in Schumann's lifetime
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Schumann and his wife Clara in an 1847 lithograph
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Clara Schumann, née Wieck, two years after her husband's
death...
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... and aged seventeen in an 1836 drawing
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Clara's father and Robert's teacher, Friedrich Wieck
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Clara and Robert Schumann
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An autograph score for Schumann's 'Sonata for the Pianoforte',
op. 11
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Cover of a printed edition of his 'Märchenbilder', op.
113
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Costume sketch for Estrella in the ballet 'Carnaval' with music
by Schumann, 1910
akg-images / Erich Lessing
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Costume sketch for Florestan in the ballet 'Carnaval' with music
by Schumann, 1910
akg-images / Erich Lessing
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A still of Katharine Hepburn and Paul Heinreid as the Schumanns
in 1947's 'Song of Love;
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A scene from the ballet 'Carnaval' from a 1927 production
akg-images / ullstein bild
