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Friday, May 02, 2003

# Posted 11:31 AM by Patrick Belton  

I'LL BE YOUR (SCHU)MANN: Brahms's biographer writes in the Guardian about the composer's life-long, wrenching love-affair with Schumann's pianist wife. Schumann was, of course, Brahms's mentor; Brahms was Schumann's discovery and protege. Like Berlin's with Akhmatova, it was a romance of titans, vexing both of their lives, to the end utterly unconsumated. Brahms writes Clara in 1855, "I can do nothing but think of you... What have you done to me? Can't you remove the spell you have cast over me?"

It couldn't be done.
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