Schumann

shooman, Robert, (1810-1856), a German musical composer. A native of Saxony. Educated for the law. He neglected his legal studies at the universities of Leipzig and Heidelberg for literature and society. One or two dramas met with little success. At Leipsic he came under the influence of Mendelssohn and was a careful student of Bach. Schumann injured his right hand, but married a brilliant pianist, Clara Wieck, who brought her husband's compositions to public notice in the chief musical centers of Europe. An oratorio, Paradise and the Peri, is his most celebrated composition.