Klarinet Archive - Posting 000675.txt from 2002/05

From: "Michael Bryant" <michael@-----.uk>
Subj: Re: [kl] Clara Schumann
Date: Wed, 29 May 2002 18:50:24 -0400

Gene Nibbelin wrote on Saturday, May 25, 2002 4:09 AM
Subject: RE: [kl] Clara Schumann

> Now why did you have to spoil all our salacious fun?
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For those of a similar cheerful outlook the chief reference is
Fritz Spiegl's "Lives, Wives and Lovers of the Great Composers"
Marion Boyars 1996; Robert and Clara p.177-189.
[Austrian-born flute player Fritz Spiegl (1926-), principal flute Liverpool
Phil 1949-63, broadcaster and arts journalist.]
His humorous anthologies of musical ephemera are commendable,
'Music Through the Looking Glass' and 'Musical Blunders and Other
Off-beat Curiosities'.

Schumann's written music criticism (translated into English 1880, 2 Vols)
demonstrates standards that are highly erratic.

The letter of Brahms and Clara and Robert have been variously treated:
Marguerite and Jean Alley: A Passionate Friendship: Clara Schumann
and Brahms: Staples 1956, and Gerd Nauhaus: The Marriage Diaries of
Robert and Clara Schumann: Robson 1994

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