Robert Schumann: astrology, horoscope, natal chart

Robert Schumann (June 8, 1810 – July 29, 1856) was a German composer and pianist. He was one of the most famous Romantic composers of the nineteenth century, as well as a famous music critic. An intellectual as well as an aesthete, his music reflects the deeply personal nature of Romanticism. Introspective and often whimsical, his early music was an attempt to break with the tradition of classical forms and structure which he thought too restrictive. Little understood in his lifetime, much of his music is now regarded as daringly original in harmony, rhythm and form. He stands in the front rank of German Romantics. Early life Robert Schumann was born on June 8, 1810, in Zwickau in Saxony. His father was a publisher, and his boyhood was spent in the cultivation of literature quite as mu...