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    A Day with Robert Schumann
    A Day with Robert Schumann
    A Day with Robert Schumann
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    A Day with Robert Schumann

    By May Clarissa Gillington Byron

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 26, 2013
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      A Day with Robert Schumann - May Clarissa Gillington Byron

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      Title: A Day with Robert Schumann

      Author: May Byron

      Release Date: June 19, 2011 [EBook #36472]

      Language: English

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      THE HIDALGO.

      My days I spend in courting,

      With songs and hearts a-sporting,

      Or weaponed for a fight!

      (Der Hidalgo).

      A DAY WITH

      ROBERT

      SCHUMANN

      BY MAY BYRON

      LONDON

      HODDER & STOUGHTON

      In the same Series.

      Mozart.

      Beethoven.

      Mendelssohn.

      Schubert.

      Chopin.

      Wagner.

      Gounod.

      Tschaikovsky.

      A DAY WITH SCHUMANN.

      It is an April morning in 1844, in the town of Leipzig,—calm, cool, and fraught with exquisite promise of a prolific spring,—when the Herr Professor Doctor Robert Schumann, rising before six o'clock as is his wont, very quietly and noiselessly in his soft felt slippers, dresses and goes downstairs. For he does not wish to disturb or incommode his sleeping wife, whose dark eyes are still closed, or to awaken any of his three little children.

      The tall, dignified, well-built man, with his pleasant, kindly expression, and his air of mingled intellect and reverie, bears his whole character written large upon him,—his transparent honesty, unflagging industry, and generous, enthusiastic altruism. No touch of self-seeking about him, no hint of ostentation or conceit: he is still that same reticent and silent person, of whom it was said some years ago by his friends,

      "Herr Schumann is a right good man,

      He smokes tobacco as no one can:

      A man of thirty, I suppose,

      And short his hair, and short his nose."

      That, indeed, is the sum total of his outward appearance: as for the inward man, it is not to be known save through his writings. Literature and music are the only means of expression, of communication with others, which are possessed by this modest, pensive, reserved maestro, upon whom the sounding titles of Doctor and Professor sit so strangely.

      In the unparalleled fervour and romance of his compositions,—in the passionate heart-opening of his letters,—in the sane, wholesome, racy colloquialism of his critiques,—the real Robert Schumann is unfolded. Otherwise he might remain a perennial enigma to his nearest and dearest: for even in his

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