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Performance Repertoire
During her lifetime, Clara Schumann was an internationally renowned concert pianist. Over 1300 concert programs from Schumann's performances throughout Europe between 1831 through 1889 have been preserved. She championed the works of her husband, Robert Schumann, and other contemporaries Johannes Brahms, Frédéric Chopin, and Felix Mendelssohn.

In her early years, her repertoire, selected by her father, was showy and popular and in the style common to the time, with works by Kalkbrenner, Henselt, Thalberg, Herz, Pixis, Czerny, and her own compositions. In 1835, she performed her Piano Concerto in A Minor with the Leipzig Gewandhaus, led by Felix Mendelssohn. Her only other piano concerto, Konzersatz F moll (1947), was left unfinished. In 1841, she premiered Robert Schumann's Piano Concerto in Dresden.

Her busiest years as a performer were between 1856 and 1873, after Robert Schumann's death. During this period, she experienced success as a performer in Great Britain, where her 1865 performance of Beethoven Piano Concerto No.5 was met "with enormous applause." As a chamber musician, she often concertized with violinist Joseph Joachim and played songs frequently on recitals in the later years of her career.