... . All her compositions date from 1853 or before, including twenty-nine songs, three partsongs, four pieces for piano and orchestra, twenty pieces for solo piano, and three piano concertos by Beethoven and Mozart. Only her love for her husband Robert Schumann surpassed her passion for music. Clara Schumann was as a champion and interpreter of the music of her husband Robert Schumann and Johannes Brahms, and was ... with a cascade of sound only to stop suddenly as if suspended in midair like a butterfly hovering over a flower (Ashby and Ohrn, 1995). By the time Clara was sixteen, she had f...

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