1. Schumann
... love. About to leave for a piano concert tour with her father, Clara had Schumann over who escorted her down stairs to say goodbye. Before he left, he took Clara into his arms and kissed her. Although Clara was overwhelmed with happiness to the point she could faint, her father had no intention to let this love affair continue. Friedrich Wieck would let ... 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 jumping into the Rhine. Aft...
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