
Johannes Brahms and Clara Schumann: A Love Story
Sticky Notes: The Classical Music Podcast
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Brahms and Clara
Brahms grew up playing the piano in hamburg hore houses. He idealized women, but never would get too close. The sheer impossibility of being with a married woman 14 years older than him was just where he needed things to be. Clara seemed happy to indulge these thoughts in her first tour since robert's suicide attempt.
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