He was considered to be an enfant terrible of the art business, he lived a life of excess and died at an early age. In celebration of his 60th birthday the ?Museum für Gegenwart? in Berlin is paying homage to this controversial artist....
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Robert Schumann was born 200 years ago on June 8. The conductor and composer Heinz Holliger, who has devoted his life to the study of Romantic master, talks to Claus Spahn about the his labyrinthine imagination, erudition and incredible modernity. He also dispels a string of clichees that have consigned so much of the Schumann's work to musical oblivion.
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