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 much as in music. Schumann himself said that he began to compose before the age of seven years.
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 much as in music. Schumann himself said that he began to compose before the age of seven years: