Schumann

Robert Schumann was a German composer and pianist.

Schumann married his music teacher's daughter Clara, who was a pianist and music prodigy.

Schumann was admitted to a mental asylum at his own request.

Schumann was diagnosed with psychotic melancholia.

Among the great composers who were alive when Verdi was a little boy were: Beethoven, Schubert, Berlioz and Schumann.

He won scholarships from the British and German governments to study at the Royal Academy of Music in London and at the Felix Mendelson Bartholdy University for Music and Theater in Leipzig in 1999. His passion for the piano has been influenced predominately by Schumann, Schubert and Debussy.