It's one of the commonplaces of 19th‑century music history that Schumann devoted the first decade of his creative life entirely to piano music and only turned to other genres in the 1840s, completing ...

In which Schumann reinvented his own compositional language and created an alternative way of thinking about the symphony – despite the onset of the syphilis that was eventually to kill him Here's the ...

The next to the last of the series of Symphony Concerts will be given this evening at 7.45 in Sanders Theatre. The program is as follows: Overture, "Manfred, "Schumann; Unfinished Symphony in B minor.

Catherine Bott introduces Schubert's Unfinished Symphony and an unusual concerto for four horns by Schumann in tonight's concert. Soon after Mendelssohn's first visit to Britain, he headed off to ...