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Robert Schumann House is a museum in Zwickau in Germany. The composer Robert Schumann was born here in 1810; it now houses a large collection relating to the composer.

Robert Schumann House
General information
Address	Hauptmarkt 5 08056 Zwickau
Country	Germany
Coordinates	50°43′3″N 12°29′47″E
Website
http://www.schumannzwickau.de/en/

Background

Three years before the composer was born, Schumann's family moved to Zwickau, from Ronneburg, Thuringia, where his siblings had been born. In Zwickau August Schumann, the composer's father, founded a bookstore with his brother, who was already living there. There was a school with a good reputation in the town (later named the Lyzeum) for the Schumann sons.[1] Robert Schumann attended this school from 1820 until 1828; in that year he moved to Leipzig to study law.[2]

Details

The Robert Schumann House, consisting of a museum, concert hall and research centre, was opened in 1956. There is a large collection relating to Robert Schumann.[3]

The concert hall seats 140; sometimes the historic pianos from the museum are used here.[4] The collection of pianos, all manufactured in the 19th century, includes a grand piano commissioned by Friedrich Wieck for his daughter Clara (later the composer's wife), on which she gave her concert debut, aged nine, at the Leipzig Gewandhaus.[5]

The permanent exhibition is in eight rooms, each room dealing with a particular period in Schumann's life. The exhibition displays a selection of the archives, which include handwritten scores, first editions and a collection of paintings and early photographs.[6][7] The archives also contain about 300 letters by Robert Schumann and more than 2,000 letters by Clara Schumann; also Robert Schumann's letter indexes, in which he recorded letters he wrote and received.[8]

See also

• Schumann House, Leipzig
• Lindenmuseum Clara Schumann
• List of music museums

References

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