1. Schumann
... for law study. Although he worked the best he could, he hated them and found comfort by attending the Gewandhaus concerts, socializing with musical friends, and continuing piano study with a gifted Leipzig teacher, Friedrich Wieck. It was this division of studies and energy between a duty he loathed and an expressive activity he adored that undoubtedly brought upon him a severe case of ... . Schumann soon began composing some incredible piano works such as the Papillons, the Paganini Etudes, Six Intermezzi, and the Toccata, yet not so long afterwards he had trouble with his hands. Becaus...
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