German ComposerRobert Schumann

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Norman Lebrecht, A Romantic Spirit; The Schumanns cultivated a brand with the same determination as their ferocious counterparts, Wagner, Berlioz and Liszt. Wall Street Journal, Dec 12, 2012
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB ... 71540808358994.html
(Martin Geck, Robert Schumann; The life and work of a Romantic composer. University of Chicago Press, 2012)

Note:
(1) The German surname Lebrecht is "composed of the elements liut ‘people’, ‘tribe’ + berht ‘bright’, ‘shining.’"
(2)
(a) Düsseldorf
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%BCsseldorf
(the capital city of the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia and centre of the Rhine-Ruhr metropolitan region; off the eastern banks of the Rhine River; population 592,393 in 2011)
(b) Düssel
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%BCssel
(Düsseldorf takes its name from the Düssel: Düsseldorf means "the village of Düssel")

(3)
(a) Robert Schumann
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Schumann
(1810-1856; German; is regarded as one of the greatest and most representative composers of the Romantic era [1815-1910])

Quote: "In 1840, against her father's wishes, Schumann married pianist Clara Wieck, daughter of his former teacher, the day before she legally came of age at 21. Had they waited one day, they would have no longer needed her father's consent, which had been the subject of a long and acrimonious legal battle, which found in favor of Clara and Robert.

* He was born in
Zwickau
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zwickau
(former seat of the Free State of Saxony; section 6 History, for name meaning)
(b) Clara Schumann
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clara_Schumann
(1819-1896)
(c) The German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) surname Schumann is an "occupational name for a shoemaker, from Middle High German schuoch ‘shoe’ + man ‘man.’"

(4)
(a) Richard Wagner
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Wagner
(1813-1883; German)
(b) Hector Berlioz
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hector_Berlioz
(1803-1869; French)  
(c) Franz Liszt
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Liszt
(1811-1886; Hungarian)

(5) The review said, "Martin Geck, a musicologist from Dortmund, Germany, seeks to fillet fact from fantasy."
(a) Dortmund
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dortmund
(population 580,444 in 2010, the largest city in Ruhr area)
(b) fillet (vt): "to cut into fillets"

(6) Neue Zeitschrift für Musik
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neue_Zeitschrift_f%C3%BCr_Musik
(English: New Journal of Music; was a music magazine published in Leipzig, co-founded by Robert Schumann, his teacher and future father-in law Friedrich Wieck, and his close friend Ludwig Schuncke; Its first issue appeared in 1834)

* zeitschrift (noun feminine): "magazine, journal"
(7) Frédéric Chopin
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frédéric_Chopin
(1810-1849)
(8) Lord Byron or George Gordon Byron (1788-1824)
(9) The review stated, "His first works, the 'Abegg' variations and 'Papillons,' were intended for Clara's fingers.

Abegg
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abegg
(a German surname)

(10) Davidsbündlertänze
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davidsb%C3%BCndlert%C3%A4nze
(Davidsbündlertänze (Dances of the League of David), Op. 6, is a group of eighteen pieces for solo piano composed by Robert Schumann in 1837, named them after his imaginary Davidsbündler [League of David; was an imaginary music society created by Robert Schumann in his writings])

(11) The review commented, "He married Clara in September 1840, one day before her coming of age, a move calculated to give him control of her modest fortune. A flood of lieder followed, darker and less melodic than the Schubert cycles, pointing ahead toward the chromaticism of Wagner and Hugo Wolf."
(a) lied (n; plural: lieder; First Known Use 1852): "a German art song especially of the 19th century"
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/%20lied
(b) chromaticism
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromaticism
(c) Hugo Wolf
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_Wolf
(1860-1903; Austrian)

(12) Johannes Brahms
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johannes_Brahms
(1833-1897; German)