Florian Uhlig / Piano Recital

In August 1828, Robert Schumann attended his first piano lessons with Friedrich Wieck in Leipzig, and from 1830 onwards, he even lived in the Wieck family home. Around this time he was practising like a man possessed, but he soon had to give up hope of a career as a piano virtuoso as his right hand increasingly became afflicted with signs of paralysis. From this time on, all his creative energies were devoted to composition. German pianist Florian Uhlig, a leading interpreter of Schumann who is working on an ambitious project to record the composer’s complete piano works, turns to the very early piano pieces for his concert at the Elbphilharmonie.  Included in the programme is Schumann’s Impromptus on a Theme by (the then 12-year-old) Clara Wieck, whom Robert Schumann would later marry.