Where did Robert Schumann die?
He died in a ‘lunatic’ asylum in Endenich, near Bonn in Germany, in 1856, at the age of 46. Here’s a section from the online Grove’s Dictionary of Music (Grove Music Online) that has a little more detail than the previous answer. The Grove Music Online database is available from the Los Angeles Public Library site in the Databases page(http://databases.lapl.org/#g). If you have an LAPL library card, you can use it from home. I’m a librarian at this library. Central Library has tons of books on Robert Schumann as well. • Endenich, 1854-6. Situated on a well-kept estate in Endenich, a suburb of Bonn, the private asylum where Schumann spent his last years was one of the more progressive institutions of its type. Its guiding force was Dr Franz Richarz, an adherent of the ‘no-restraint’ method championed by the British physician John Conolly. Though he neither force-fed nor drugged his patients, Richarz discouraged direct contact with relatives in the belief that such meetings might set off
