

A delicate doorway to a living past, A Day With Robert Schumann invites young readers and curious adults into the intimate world of a Romantic-era piano composer. A quiet, engaging study in character and craft, it blends biography with storytelling to make music feel tangible...

It is an April morning in 1844, in the town of Leipzig, -calm, cool, and fraught with exquisite promise of a prolific spring, -when the Herr Professor Doctor Robert Schumann, rising before six o'clock as is his wont, very quietly and noiselessly in his soft felt slippers, dresses...