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Johannes Brahms and Clara Schumann: A Love Story

Sticky Notes: The Classical Music Podcast

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Brahms' Love Letters to Clara

Brahms wrote to Clara that he wasn't able to connect the music to his heart during this writer's block. Brahms stopped using the intimate word do in his letters to her, and she became furious. Robert continued to deteriorate. It was 18 56, now two years since the suicide attempt, and clara had still not been allowed to see her husband. Finally realizing that robert was dying, she was told that he had begun to starve himself,. She demanded to see him. Can you imagine the additional entanglements that must have formed with every moment in that hospital room?brahms watched from a corner in the room. Now he wants to set her in gold

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