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Some of the people mentioned are Schumann, Clara Wieck, Hector Berlioz, Johannes Brahms, Beethoven, Joachim, Richard Wagner, Hans von Bulow, Anton Rubinstein, Frederic Chopin, Victor Hugo, Honore de Balzac, Hiller, Hummel, Czerny, Rossini, Cherubini, Paganini, Mendelssohn, etc., etc.
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Schumann = German romantic composer known for piano music and songs (1810-1856)
- When she entered the shop that day, she was welcomed by their employee Karl Schumann, a young man with a goatee, who then bustled away into the workshop.† (source)
- I opened up the Schumann book to the dark little piece I had played at the recital.† (source)
- In the first week, he'd tried to approximate something by Schumann; for a few days after that; he'd been inspired more by Grieg.† (source)
- I thought of Tía Alicia, her hair braided like mine with a blue ribbon, sitting at the piano playing Schumann's Kindersenen, her peacock brooch at her throat.† (source)
- It was Madame Schumann-Heink singing Brahms Lieder.† (source)
- Virgie, of course, kept on practicing;-it was a Schumann "forest piece."† (source)
- Schumann met and was wildly impressed with Brahms before Brahms had written any music.
- For the talent show, I was to play a piece called "Pleading Child" from Schumann's Scenes from Childhood.† (source)
- When I was a little girl in this house, this ancient house, I would lie awake at night in my bed and listen to my mother play downstairs on the piano—Schumann or Chopin she would play, or Beethoven or Scarlatti or Bach, she was a wonderful pianist—I would lie awake and hear the music faint and beautiful rising up through the house and I would feel so warm and comfortable and secure.† (source)
- How she kept to Schumann when, like an idiot, I wanted Beethoven.† (source)
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- She shook her head and played Schumann again.† (source)
- Schumann was the thing.† (source)
- If I were middle-class I should turn my back on my father's business; and we should both live in an artistic drawingroom, with you reading the reviews in one corner, and I in the other at the piano, playing Schumann: both very superior persons, and neither of us a bit of use.† (source)
- He was seated at the piano, with his back to them, turning over the pages of a volume of Schumann's "Forest Scenes."† (source)
- She bustled to the kitchen, stoked the wood-range, sang Schumann while she boiled the kettle, warmed up raisin cookies on a newspaper spread on the rack in the oven.† (source)
- Schumann was right for this evening.† (source)
- Not thus had she played on the little draped piano at the Bertolini, and "Too much Schumann" was not the remark that Mr. Beebe had passed to himself when she returned.† (source)
- Lucy passed into Schumann.† (source)
- She played Schumann.† (source)
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