
Johannes Brahms and Clara Schumann: A Love Story
Sticky Notes: The Classical Music Podcast
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Brahms's D Minor Piano Concerto
Brahms moved into schumann's house to console clara and take care of the children, since clara started teaching just two days after robert attempted suicide. Robert was taken to an asylum immediately, where clara was prevented from seeing him, as the doctors thought that it would agitate him. At around this time, broms began composing a two piano piece, which then became a symphony, piano quintete and then finally ended up as a piano concerto. These were all the same piece, going through y, tortured different guises. And what finally came out is the d minor piano concerto - one of the most terrifying and profound in all
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