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Chapter 2 - The Schumanns

from Part I - Personality, People and Places

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 May 2019

By
Thomas Synofzik
Edited by
Natasha Loges  and
Katy Hamilton
Natasha Loges
Affiliation:
Royal College of Music, London
Katy Hamilton
Affiliation:
Royal College of Music, London
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Summary

Various books and films have been devoted to the friendship between Johannes Brahms and Clara Schumann, often overlooking the manifold connections Brahms also had with other members of the Schumann family. Listeners and performers have been intrigued by stories of love and romantically inspired works with secret encoded musical messages. Indeed, triangular artistic relationships like that of Robert and Clara Schumann and Brahms are fascinating for many reasons, rarely to do with music – but can Clara Schumann be compared to Alma Mahler-Werfel or Cosima Bülow-Wagner? In reviewing the relationship, with recourse to unpublished letters from Clara Schumann’s correspondence with her family, the following focusses on the mutual artistic influences, dedications, Clara Schumann’s performances and Brahms’s editorial contributions to her complete edition of Robert Schumann’s works.

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BrahmscontextSchumannDusseldorfNeue Bahnenpublishing
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Brahms in Context , pp. 14 - 22
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2019

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Further Reading

Nauhaus, G., ‘Brahms und Clara Schumann. Aspekte einer Lebens- und Arbeitspartnerschaft’, in Fuchs, I. (ed.), Internationaler Brahms-Kongress Gmunden 1997 (Tutzing: Hans Schneider, 2001), 377–91Google Scholar
Roesner, L., ‘Brahms’s Editions of Schumann’, in Bozarth, G. (ed.), Brahms Studies: Analytical and Historical Perspectives (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1990), 252–60Google Scholar
Reich, N., Clara Schumann. The Artist and the Woman, 2nd edn (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2001)Google Scholar
Schubring, A., ‘Schumanniana No. 11. Die Schumann’sche Schule. Schumann und Brahms’, Allgemeine Musikalische Zeitung 3/6 (5 February 1868), 41–2.Google Scholar
Schumann, R., Tagebücher, ed. G. Eismann and G. Nauhaus (Frankfurt am Main and Basel: Stroemfeld/Roter Stern, 1971–87)Google Scholar
Schumann, E., The Schumanns and Johannes Brahms. The Memoirs of Eugenie Schumann (New York: Dial Press, 1927)Google Scholar

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