Devour Music

In the poetry of Heinrich Heine and Joseph von Eichendorff, Schumann found an inexhaustible source of inspiration for his Lieder. The selection of songs featured in this concert, most of which were written in an unprecedented burst of creativity during the annus mirabilis of 1840, reveals his unique talent for turning words into melodies. "Ah, I can do nothing else, I would like to sing until I die like a nightingale," he wrote to his beloved Clara on May 15 of that year.

Clara Schumann (1819–1