Clara Schumann: Complete Piano Works

Grützmann, Susanne

PH 19054

Clara Schumann née Wieck (1819-1896) has gone down in history as a pianist rather than as a composer. The reasons for that have nothing to do with the quality of her compositions but rest on her decision to stop composing after the death of her husband Robert Schumann. Prevailing attitudes to women were moreover not conducive, as the following entry in her diary shows: »A woman is not expected to have any desire to compose.« Yet Clara Schumann did have a desire to compose and had the ability to do so, even if she resorted to performing on the piano instead. • Susanne Grützmann was born in Leipzig in 1964 and studied with Dieter Zechlin in Berlin. She won prizes at the Robert Schumann Competition in Zwickau in 1981, the Concurso Vianna da Motta in Lisbon in 1983, the Bach Competition in Leipzig in 1984 and other international competitions. Winning first prize at the prestigious ARD Competition in Munich in 1989 confirmed her reputation and she is today regarded as one of the best German pianists.

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30-09-2019

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