Amy Fay in Berlin - December, 1869
from Music-Study in Germany: The Classic Memoir of the Romantic Era, pages 25-26:
I heard Clara Schumann on Sunday, and on Tuesday evening, also. She is a most wonderful artist. In the first concert she played a quartette by Schumann, and you can imagine how lovely it was under the treatment of Clara Schumann for the piano, Joachim for the first violin, De Ahna for the second, and Müller for the ‘cello. It was perfect and I was in raptures. Madame Schumann’s selection for the two concerts was a very wide one, and gave a full exhibition of her powers in every kind of music. The Impromptu by Schumann, Op. 90, was exquisite. It was full of passion and very difficult. The … more >>
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Amy Fay, Music-Study in Germany: The Classic Memoir of the Romantic Era (2011), p. 25-26. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1417367300914 accessed: 12 November, 2024
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Impromptu, Op. 90
written by Robert Schumann |
performed by Clara Schumann |
Scherzo
written by Chopin |
performed by Clara Schumann |
Songs without Words
written by Felix Mendelssohn |
performed by Clara Schumann |
keyboard music
written by Bach |
performed by Clara Schumann |
quartette
written by Haydn, Robert Schumann |
performed by Henry de Ahna, Wilhelm Müller, Clara Schumann, Joseph Joachim |
Experience Information
Date/Time | December, 1869 |
Medium | live |
Listening Environment | in the company of others, indoors, in public |
Originally submitted by Meg Barclay on Sun, 30 Nov 2014 17:08:21 +0000