Form May 27th to June 23rd, in the Music and Audio Materials Reading Room (room 305) is open an exhibition "The unique world of Schumann” dedicated to the 200th birthday of German musician and musical critic Robert Schumann (1810–1856).
The epoch of romanticism gave birth to multitude of wonderful works. Robert Schumann was the most outstanding representative and a devoted knight of musical romanticism. The composer-romanticist upheld ideas and ideals of the new art in his great musical compositions, literary works, and in his wise exhortations to young people.
During his short life, the composer managed to enrich all spheres of musical art. Robert Schumann is the author of the opera “Genoveva”(1848); symphonies; piano cycles “Butterflies” (1831), “Carnival” (1835) and others, lyrical dramatic cycles “A Woman Love and Life” (1840), “A Poet’s Love” (1840). His song cycles gave a new life to the poetry by Goethe and Byron, Schiller and Heine, Chamisso and Eichendorff, Andersen and Ruckert.
The exhibition presents printed music and records of the composer’s works from the collections of the National Library of Belarus, and also books and publications on Robert Schumann’s creative activity.
Contact phone number: (+375-17) 293-27-52.
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