Sarah Fritz - hiatus
@sarahfritz.bsky.social
Writer. Historian. Former opera singer. she/her
Clara Schumann know-it-all.
https://clara-schumann-channel.com/
Clara Schumann know-it-all.
https://clara-schumann-channel.com/
My FAV recording of Clara Schumann’s op. 12 & 13 & other without opus lieder. They give her work all the respect & care her she deserves. I’ve listened to it hundreds of times!
May 2, 2025 at 12:10 PM
My FAV recording of Clara Schumann’s op. 12 & 13 & other without opus lieder. They give her work all the respect & care her she deserves. I’ve listened to it hundreds of times!
Princess Fluffernut hopes there’s some sunshine in your day today too!
April 12, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Princess Fluffernut hopes there’s some sunshine in your day today too!
Some days researching Clara Schumann is the best job ever. Other days I read 💩 like this & wanna claw my eyes out😵💫
April 2, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Some days researching Clara Schumann is the best job ever. Other days I read 💩 like this & wanna claw my eyes out😵💫
Amazing celebration of Fanny Hensel last night at the Morgan Library—performance of the Easter Sonata WITH view of the manuscript & screening of the Fanny: the other Mendelssohn doc. PLUS I finally met @henselpushers.bsky.social!!!
March 22, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Amazing celebration of Fanny Hensel last night at the Morgan Library—performance of the Easter Sonata WITH view of the manuscript & screening of the Fanny: the other Mendelssohn doc. PLUS I finally met @henselpushers.bsky.social!!!
This weekend I spent time with the bust of 70yr old Clara Schumann in the Vienna Musikverein. Of the dozens of composer busts in the building… she’s the only woman.
March 20, 2025 at 2:13 PM
This weekend I spent time with the bust of 70yr old Clara Schumann in the Vienna Musikverein. Of the dozens of composer busts in the building… she’s the only woman.
My GROCERY store (of all places) reminded me— women’s history month starts today!!!
March 1, 2025 at 2:16 PM
My GROCERY store (of all places) reminded me— women’s history month starts today!!!
Above: Julia Perry, Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson
Below: Florence Price, Maragaret Bonds, Nora Holt, Betty Jackson King, Helen Hagan
Below: Florence Price, Maragaret Bonds, Nora Holt, Betty Jackson King, Helen Hagan
February 15, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Above: Julia Perry, Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson
Below: Florence Price, Maragaret Bonds, Nora Holt, Betty Jackson King, Helen Hagan
Below: Florence Price, Maragaret Bonds, Nora Holt, Betty Jackson King, Helen Hagan
Starting a thread of composers who WOULD be in the classical music canon—if the genre wasn’t steeped in racism.
#BlackHistoryMonth is alive!
(Please add your favs…)
#BlackHistoryMonth is alive!
(Please add your favs…)
February 15, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Starting a thread of composers who WOULD be in the classical music canon—if the genre wasn’t steeped in racism.
#BlackHistoryMonth is alive!
(Please add your favs…)
#BlackHistoryMonth is alive!
(Please add your favs…)
Wishing y’all Fluffernut’s Saturday energy
February 8, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Wishing y’all Fluffernut’s Saturday energy
Starting my Black History Month celebration with this exquisite new Florence Price album— Grammy nominated… 🤞🏻
February 2, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Starting my Black History Month celebration with this exquisite new Florence Price album— Grammy nominated… 🤞🏻
Maria Szymanowska—early 19th cent Polish pianist who kinda started it all. First touring pianist, first pianist to play from memory. Everybody was riding her coat tales—Wieck, Chopin Liszt, etc.
If history had gotten it right, we would allllll know her music.
If history had gotten it right, we would allllll know her music.
January 28, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Maria Szymanowska—early 19th cent Polish pianist who kinda started it all. First touring pianist, first pianist to play from memory. Everybody was riding her coat tales—Wieck, Chopin Liszt, etc.
If history had gotten it right, we would allllll know her music.
If history had gotten it right, we would allllll know her music.
When your blog is the first hit for AI search — 🫣 😳 oof
January 16, 2025 at 9:11 PM
When your blog is the first hit for AI search — 🫣 😳 oof
Merry meow-mas from Princess Fluffernut
December 25, 2024 at 5:30 PM
Merry meow-mas from Princess Fluffernut
Paper mache cat made by my MIL 30yrs ago that it’s “not Christmas” if it’s not in the tree 🙃
December 22, 2024 at 6:45 PM
Paper mache cat made by my MIL 30yrs ago that it’s “not Christmas” if it’s not in the tree 🙃
I got this in a long email from a stranger this morning… & all I want to reply is… I do 19th cent German Romantic music. That’s it. That’s all I can handle. The end.
December 19, 2024 at 6:09 PM
I got this in a long email from a stranger this morning… & all I want to reply is… I do 19th cent German Romantic music. That’s it. That’s all I can handle. The end.
Who’s watching????
December 5, 2024 at 3:04 AM
Who’s watching????
I’ve thought about this for years of course! I think Emily Blunt might still be a good choice.
December 4, 2024 at 7:01 PM
I’ve thought about this for years of course! I think Emily Blunt might still be a good choice.
that famous “I’ll quit composing cuz I’m a woman” quote from Clara’s diary? Cuz of Marie Pleyel.
clara-schumann-channel.com/2023/12/12/w...
![“Everything that I read about [Marie Pleyel] is an ever clearer proof that she is above me; and if this be so I can hardly fail to be completely downcast. I think that I shall submit to it in time, for indeed oblivion is the fate of every artist who is not creative. I once thought that I possessed creative talent, but I have given up this idea; a woman must not desire to compose—not one has been able to do it, and why should I expect to? It would be arrogance, though indeed, my Father led me into it in earlier days.’” Clara’s diary 1839](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:xxrfmrmelqtym5dsgbwgy366/bafkreibic6jfwtk7wu3eiruh5e5jufadpia53owbkyrfbsuwdqiqv52cwa@jpeg)
December 3, 2024 at 10:22 PM
that famous “I’ll quit composing cuz I’m a woman” quote from Clara’s diary? Cuz of Marie Pleyel.
clara-schumann-channel.com/2023/12/12/w...
I’ve been bluesky roasted…
December 1, 2024 at 8:18 PM
I’ve been bluesky roasted…
Writing about Clara Schumann means that 19th cent Romanticism is MY LIFE. And for years I’ve been wondering about the movement’s connections with race / racism & now this book is here!!! I’m so excited to dive in… 🥳
www.cambridge.org/us/universit...
www.cambridge.org/us/universit...
November 30, 2024 at 8:03 PM
Writing about Clara Schumann means that 19th cent Romanticism is MY LIFE. And for years I’ve been wondering about the movement’s connections with race / racism & now this book is here!!! I’m so excited to dive in… 🥳
www.cambridge.org/us/universit...
www.cambridge.org/us/universit...
Search “concert” and post the oldest pic in your camera roll
You know you’re a Clara Schumann researcher when—also my camera roll thinks it’s from “1841”
You know you’re a Clara Schumann researcher when—also my camera roll thinks it’s from “1841”
November 26, 2024 at 2:19 PM
Search “concert” and post the oldest pic in your camera roll
You know you’re a Clara Schumann researcher when—also my camera roll thinks it’s from “1841”
You know you’re a Clara Schumann researcher when—also my camera roll thinks it’s from “1841”
Got my first trolls here! And it wasn’t even from something controversial.😂 Anyway blocked/ reported! Moving on.
November 25, 2024 at 3:23 PM
Got my first trolls here! And it wasn’t even from something controversial.😂 Anyway blocked/ reported! Moving on.
Mine mug is evidence of my hard state of denial
November 23, 2024 at 3:17 PM
Mine mug is evidence of my hard state of denial
Anne Bronte!
November 23, 2024 at 12:09 AM
Anne Bronte!