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Clara Schumann

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Why hurry over beautiful things? Why not linger and enjoy them?


— Clara Schumann


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My imagination can picture no fairer happiness than to continue living for art.


— Clara Schumann


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My health may be better preserved if I exert myself less, but in the end doesn't each person give his life for his calling?


— Clara Schumann


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I do not want horses or diamonds - I am happy in possessing you.


— Clara Schumann


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If I have known much trouble in my youth, I have also known much joy.


— Clara Schumann


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The tea is ice-cold, the room grows colder and colder, but I grow warmer and warmer.


— Clara Schumann


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There is nothing greater than the joy of composing something oneself and then listening to it.


— Clara Schumann


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Every man has his faults; I have and so have you - you will allow me to say so!


— Clara Schumann


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I cannot be so bad when everybody is so fond of me.


— Clara Schumann


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I wish to lead a life free from care, and I see that I shall be unhappy if I cannot always work at my art.


— Clara Schumann


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As Clara Schumann grew older however Clara Schumann lost confidence in herself as a composer writing "I once believed that I possessed creative talent but I have given up this idea; a woman must not desire to compose — there has never yet been one able to do it. 6 (1. 1834· Walzer fűr Gesang und Klavier.

She and her husband encouraged Johannes Brahms and Clara Schumann was the first pianist to give public performances of some of Brahms' works notably the Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel. Her husband was the composer Robert Schumann. She exerted her influence over a 61-year concert career changing the format and repertoire of the piano recital and the tastes of the listening public.

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