Modern music and musicians : [Encyclopedic] . AN AUTOGRAPH OF ROBERT AND CLARA SCHUMANN. ROBERT SCHUMANN BY EDVARD GRIEG SOME years ago, a young lady was sitting at the piano, singing, onboard a steamer on the coast of Norway. When she paused astranger stepped up to her, introducing himself as a lover of music. Theyfell into conversation, and had not talked long when the stranger ex-claimed: You love Schumann ? Then we are friends! and reached herhis hand. This is characteristic as illustrating the intimate quality in Schumannsart. To meet in quiet comprehension of the master durin
Modern music and musicians : [Encyclopedic] . AN AUTOGRAPH OF ROBERT AND CLARA SCHUMANN. ROBERT SCHUMANN BY EDVARD GRIEG SOME years ago, a young lady was sitting at the piano, singing, onboard a steamer on the coast of Norway. When she paused astranger stepped up to her, introducing himself as a lover of music. Theyfell into conversation, and had not talked long when the stranger ex-claimed: You love Schumann ? Then we are friends! and reached herhis hand. This is characteristic as illustrating the intimate quality in Schumannsart. To meet in quiet comprehension of the master during a mysterioustete-a-tete at a piano—that is genuinely Schumannesque; to swear by hisbanner in associations and debating clubs, or amid the glare of festalsplendor—that is decidedly non-Schumannesque. Schumann has neverostentatiously summoned anv bodv of adherents. He has been a cometwithout a tail, but, for all that, one of the most remarkable comets in thefirmament of art. His worshipers have always been the single is something in them of the character
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