1. Schumann
... between 1834 and 1835 to write the Etudes symphoniques and the Carnaval, both for piano. Soon Schumann and Ernestine were engaged, but alas, she left town and the love ended (however, in just a few months Schumann replaced her with a new love interest, Clara Wieck, Friedrich Wieck's own daughter ... the sun, which had hidden his face for many days, shed his warm beams upon us as we drove to church, as if to bless our union. It was a day without a jar, and I may thus enter it in this book as the fairest and most momentous of my ... with an abundant amount of lyrical thoughts. Going along ...
- Word Count: 4114
- Approx Pages: 16
- Grade Level: Undergraduate