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Authors: Manette Ansay
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Reich,
Clara Schumann,
157.
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Robert Schumann Haus, Zwickau.
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Berthold Litzmann, ed.
Clara Schumann– vol. 1 (Leipzig: Breitkopf und Hartel, 1927), 188 (hereafter cited as Briefe; original translations by Winfried Reichelt).
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John Burk,
Clara Schumann: A Romantic Biography
(New York: Random House, 1940), 324.
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Jan Swafford,
Johannes Brahms: A Biography
(New York: Vintage Books,1999), 611.
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Nauhaus and Ostwald,
The Marriage Diaries
, 178.
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Ibid., 185.
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Ibid., 199.
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Waterfront bars frequented by sailors.
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Litzmann,
Briefe
, 1.
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Artur Holde, “Suppressed Passages in the Brahms–Joachim Correspondence Published for the First Time,”
The Musical Quarterly
45, no. 3 (1959): 314.
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Litzmann,
Briefe,
10.
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Reich,
Clara Schumann,
142.
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www.gaelaerwin.com.
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Reich,
Clara Schumann,
143.
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Litzmann,
Briefe
, 12.
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Swafford,
Johannes Brahms
, 119.
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Litzmann,
Briefe
, 61.
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Ibid., 37.
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Nora Bickley, ed. and trans.,
Letters from and to Joseph Joachim
(London: Macmillan, 1914), 71–72.
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Berthold Litzmann,
Clara Schumann: An Artist’s Life
, vol. 1 (New York: Vienna House, 1972), 81.
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Swafford,
Johannes Brahms
, 121.
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www.schumann-verein.de.
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Litzmann,
Briefe
, 37.
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Bertita Harding,
Concerto: The Glowing Story of Clara Schumann
(Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1961), 134.
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Ibid., 133.
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Litzmann,
Letters,
33.
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The informal you pronoun
Du
was used almost exclusively among family members, husbands and wives, and those engaged to be married. Lifelong friends, even of the same sex, age, and social status, used the formal
Sie
when addressing one another.
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Litzmann,
Letters
, 20.
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Swafford,
Johannes Brahms,
148.
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Reich,
Clara Schumann
, 287.
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Eugenie Schumann,
The Schumanns and Johannes Brahms
(Lawrence, Mass.: Music Book Society, 1991), 152.
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Bickley,
Letters from and to Joseph Joachim
, 129–30.
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Harding,
Concerto,
234.
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“By rights,” Brahms would write to Clara in 1891, “I should have to inscribe all my best melodies, ‘Really by Clara Schumann’” (Reich,
Clara Schumann,
202).
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Reich,
Clara Schumann,
150.
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Schumann,
The Schumanns,
157.
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From the Wieck-Schumann Inner Circle.
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Litzmann,
Briefe,
185.
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Reich,
Clara Schumann,
198.
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Litzmann,
Briefe
, 222.
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Ibid., 223–24.
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Ibid., 227.
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Litzmann,
Letters
, 89.
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Ibid., 96.
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Reich,
Clara Schumann,
169.
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Litzmann,
Briefe
, 125.
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Ibid., 205.
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Reich,
Clara Schumann,
108.
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Schumann,
The Schumanns,
154.
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Swafford,
Johannes Brahms
, 164.
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Swafford,
Johannes Brahms
, 119.
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Swafford,
Johannes Brahms
, 611.
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Schumann,
The Schumanns
, 156.
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Harding,
Concerto
, 226.
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Reich,
Clara Schumann
, 197.
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