How old was clara schumann when she died

Composed in , the Piano Trio in G minor, opus 17 by Clara Schumann is considered her greatest, most mature four-movement work. It is her only piano trio,^[1] composed while she lived in Dresden, following extensive studies in fugue writing and the publication of her Three Preludes and Fugues For Piano, opus 16 in The trio was premiered by the composer in Vienna on January 15,

Background

Schumann began composing her trio at age twenty-five while living in Dresden in She found great joy in composing the chamber work; her second four-movement work after the Piano Sonata which is also in the same key of G minor.

At the first rehearsal of the trio with a violinist and cellist, she wrote in her diary, "There is nothing greater than the joy of composing something oneself, and then listening to it."^[2]

The winter of , she toured to Vienna, for the second time in her career, where she gave the trio’s premiere.^[3] Though many