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I would've never, never guessed for the life of me.
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looks like clara schumann's boyfriend to me.
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Originally posted by Horace:
looks like clara schumann's boyfriend to me. Would you be refering to Robert Schumann by any chance?
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Her other boyfriend. 
"If we continually try to force a child to do what he is afraid to do, he will become more timid, and will use his brains and energy, not to explore the unknown, but to find ways to avoid the pressures we put on him." (John Holt) www.pianoped.comwww.youtube.com/user/UIPianoPed
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You guys know your composers... I didn't recognize him at all without his beard.
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Wow, he's good-looking - why did not Clara want to marry him ?
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Originally posted by Ragnhild:
Wow, he's good-looking - why did not Clara want to marry him ?
Ragnhild Maybe he didn't want to marry her.
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Originally posted by SilentKoala: Originally posted by Ragnhild:
[b] Wow, he's good-looking - why did not Clara want to marry him ?
Ragnhild Exactly.
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i thought he wanted to marry her but she didn't and yet got jealous when she learned he had a girl-friend.
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That's the common version but after reading Swafford's biography I came away with the strong impression that Brahms was never the "marrying type" and after Robert's death, Brahms is the one who kept Clara at arm's length.
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Besides, she would have carried syphilis.
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Originally posted by Horace:
That's the common version but after reading Swafford's biography I came away with the strong impression that Brahms was never the "marrying type" and after Robert's death, Brahms is the one who kept Clara at arm's length. Perhaps, but I think that over simplifies. Clara very much took on the mantle of a "professional widow". They both kept each other at "arm's length".
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Besides, she would have carried syphilis.
As did practically every other self-respecting (yet suffering) artist/musician/writer of the 19th century! Of course, those who couldn't be bothered contracting it, had to be satisfied with tuberculosis instead.
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More Brahms: ![[Linked Image]](http://www.onlinekunst.de/mai/Brahms_1860_neu.jpg) ![[Linked Image]](http://www.musikalische-akademie.de/archiv/0304/AUSSTELLUNG/BRAHMS.JPG)
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