1. Schumann
... Holland with Clara in 1854, he began to experience auditory hallucinations of voices and terrifying music. He wrote in a letter to a violinist friend Joachim, "The night is beginning to fall My music is silenced,"" and he would tell of how the dead masters visited him to dictate melodies to him. On February 6 of that same year, Schumann slipped out of his house and attempted suicide ... by rules of structure, Romanticism always longed for the unobtainable. Expression found itself in many musical forms: the symphony, the concerto, the opera, the art song (called lied in German), the lyri...
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