As the classical music world gears up for a year of concerts celebrating the 200th anniversary of Robert Schumann's birth in 1810, it shouldn't be hard to find performances of the composer's four ...

Violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter came to Davies Symphony Hall on Thursday night to deliver a characteristically forceful and fearless performance of the Brahms Violin Concerto. Then Michael Tilson Thomas ...

This week, learn the full story behind Gioachino Rossini's "William Tell" Overture. Plus, we'll hear two towering musical expressions of nature with Robert Schumann's Symphony No. 1 and Richard ...

Robert Schumann is considered one of the finest representatives of German Romantic music. And yet his symphonies continue to be undervalued. Robert Schumann composed his first symphony in January 1841 ...

The composer Robert Schumann suffered increasingly from mental illness, until his institutionalized death at 46. Speculation as to causes ranges from a brain tumor to poisonous effects of a mercury ...

At the start of the fall season, San Francisco Symphony music director Michael Tilson Thomas promised an immersive exploration into the music of Robert Schumann — one that included live recordings of ...