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'Diese herrliche Frau,' Clara Schumann |
| Section: THE ARTS / MUSIC |
| Author: John C. Tibbetts |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 10/1/1994 |
| Size: 3,108 Words, 18,847 Characters |
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After hearing the thirteen-year-old Clara Wieck give a piano recital in his Weimar home in 1832, Goethe gave her his portrait and pronounced her a "gifted artist." A few months later a reviewer in the Allgemeine musikalische Zeitung praised the girl's artistry, declaring that the "great skill, assurance, and strength with which she plays even the most difficult movements so easily is highly remarkable." Indeed, theWundermadchen was already well on her way to becoming one of the most famous pianists in Europe. At the time she was far better known than her older friend, playmate, and future husband, the aspiring critic and composer Robert Schumann.
Since her death in 1896, however, Clara's reputation has been eclipsed by that of her husband. Scholars and critics have tended to regard h...
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...rgia, Armenia, Romania, the Ukraine, Russia, and so on," he observed. "Before, the world hardly knew about those places; but with the dismantling of the Soviet Union, you find a new freedom for people to come and go if they feel like it--and if they have the money! This is progressive, this is wonderful." The next Concours Clara Schumann is scheduled for 1997 in Dusseldorf.
--J.C.T.
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