2010 is Robert Schumann's bicentennial year, but Roberto Abbado needs no birthday party to celebrate Schumann's music. It's been a love of his since he was a little boy, sitting underneath the Steinway while his father played Schumann's piano music.
He was hooked.
As a teenager, Abbado rushed home from school to hear a broadcast of Herbert von Karajan conducting Schumann's Fourth Symphony. This week, conductor Roberto Abbado concludes a three-week festival devoted to the symphonies and major orchestral works of Robert Schumann.
He tells Classical Minnesota Public Radio's John Birge that the genius of Schumann is in the meeting of the experimental, the poetic, and the Romantic.
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