Since the liberation of social structure in eighteen century, women started to have higher education and professional trainings in society and workplaces. Clara Schumann, who married to German composer Robert Alexander Schumann, was born in Leipzig in nineteen century. She was one example of outstanding female. Her career as a composer and a pianist was rarely seen in her time. Romanticism was an artistic, literary, and intellectual movement that brought great impact in music. The main idea is that the function of music was to reflect feelings and emotions of composers, and the music forms were just to express them. Clara, the outstanding pianist, composer and educator, whose piano performing skills were impressively finer than Franz Liszt and Frédéric François Chopin. In memorial of this significant nineteen century female composer, who gave a great impact on the society, the Deutsche Post published Clara's personal stamps in 1986 and the Deutsche Bundesbank published hundred-mark bill with her head portrait.

This thesis will study on Sechs Lieder, Op. 13, a vocal music piece by Clara Schumann. There are five chapters in this thesis. First, introduction. Second, Clara's life background and the characters of her music. Third, the creative background of six songs from Clara. The fourth chapter will focus on analysis and interpretation of Clara's music, and the further studies on the lyrics and her music. The final chapter will conclude with a collection of academic comparison which will help me to interpret her songs more closer to the original composing notions.