Robert Musil war ein österreichischer Schriftsteller und Theaterkritiker. Für sein literarisches Schaffen bedeutsame Einschnitte waren der Erste Weltkrieg sowie die Errichtung der nationalsozialistischen Herrschaft in Deutschland und Österreich.
Robert Neilson Stephens was an American novelist and playwright. An Enemy to the King, both a play and a novel, was one of his best known works. An Enemy to the King was also adapted for the cinema under the same title, An Enemy to the King, in 1916.
Robert Schumann was a German composer, pianist, and influential music critic. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest composers of the Romantic era. Schumann left the study of law, intending to pursue a career as a virtuoso pianist. His teacher, Friedrich Wieck, a German pianist, had assured him that he could become the finest pianist in Europe, but a hand injury ended this dream. Schumann then focused his musical energies on composing.
Robert Schumann war ein deutscher Komponist, Musikkritiker und Dirigent. Er wird heute zu den bedeutendsten Komponisten der Romantik gezählt. In der ersten Phase seines Schaffens komponierte er vor allem Klaviermusik. 1840, im Jahr seiner Eheschließung mit der Pianistin Clara Wieck, schrieb er knapp 150 Lieder. In den folgenden Jahren entwickelte sich sein Werk zu großer Vielfalt: Er komponierte von da an auch Orchestermusik, konzertante Werke, Kammermusik, Chormusik und eine Oper.
Robert Joseph Shea was an American novelist and former journalist best known as co-author with Robert Anton Wilson of the science fantasy trilogy Illuminatus! It became a cult success and was later turned into a marathon-length stage show put on at the British National Theatre and elsewhere. In 1986 it won the Prometheus Hall of Fame Award. Shea went on to write several action novels based in exotic historical settings.
Robert Sheckley was an American writer. First published in the science-fiction magazines of the 1950s, his many quick-witted stories and novels were famously unpredictable, absurdist, and broadly comical.
Robert Silverberg is an American author and editor, best known for writing science fiction. He is a multiple winner of both Hugo and Nebula Awards, a member of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame, and a Grand Master of SF. He has attended every Hugo Award ceremony since the inaugural event in 1953.
