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The Life and Music of Clara Schumann

Sticky Notes: The Classical Music Podcast

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Clara Schumann's Music

The use of the pedal is a very important point in our school, so important that even in these days of many great pianists, sometimes the pianist performance can be sport by careless use. With Clara Schumann I very soon realized the importance and discovered the secret. Never rest the whole weight of your foot on the pedal and never press it right down. Just touch it lightly. There are times of course when a sustained pedal note has to be held as in the number two D major novelette. But if we must then keep the pedal down a moment or so, release it and try to sustain exactly the same piano as when the pedal was down. She wished us to be thus

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