{"id":4938,"date":"2016-05-17T18:49:00","date_gmt":"2016-05-17T08:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emotemuse.com\/g\/?p=4938"},"modified":"2016-05-17T18:49:00","modified_gmt":"2016-05-17T08:49:00","slug":"brahms-first-meeting-with-schumann","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=4938","title":{"rendered":"Brahm’s first meeting with Schumann"},"content":{"rendered":"

He [Brahms] sat down and began the sonata which had so impressed Joachim [a violinist].\u00a0 As he played, a swift change transformed [Robert] Schumann’s impassive features.\u00a0 The Master listened with growing interest, then suddenly sprang to his feet.<\/p>\n

“Please”, he cried.\u00a0 “Will you wait just a moment? Clara -” He hurried to the door and threw it open.\u00a0 “Clara, come here – quickly!”<\/p>\n

Nonplused, Johannes stopped playing.\u00a0 Frau Schumann, a handsome woman in her mid-thirties, came hurrying in.\u00a0 “What is it, Robert?” she asked anxiously.<\/p>\n

Laughing with the excitement, the Master pushed his wife into a chair.\u00a0 “You must hear this, my dear.\u00a0 Something quite extraordinary, I assure you.\u00a0 Music such as you have never listened to before.\u00a0 Young man, begin again.”<\/p>\n

After he had finished the sonata, Brahms was made to play all of his compositions, one after the other, and both Robert and Clara became more and more enthusiastic.\u00a0 Hannes was quite overwhelmed by their praise.<\/p>\n

“Truly, you are the one I have been waiting for!” Schumann cried, patting the young musician on the shoulder.\u00a0 My boy you and I understand each other.”<\/p>\n

The lady of the house suddenly realized that it was growing late.\u00a0 “Why, it’s dinner-time!” she exclaimed.\u00a0 “Her Brahms, you must stay and share our meal with us.”<\/p>\n

There was such a friendly, gracious expression on her face that Hannes fell at once under the spell of her compelling personality.\u00a0<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

At the table Johannes found himself surrounded by a bevy of little people. The Schumanns now had six children (one son had died when only a year old).\u00a0 Marie, the eldest, was twelve, and the youngest, Eug\u00e9ne – not yet two.\u00a0 They made friends with the visitor at once.\u00a0 Hannes forgot his self-consciousness when he was with youngsters.\u00a0 His own childlike nature responded immediately to their companionship, and he was always a great favorite with the little folks in the households he visited.\u00a0 In Brahms’ later years, this love of children was one of the main compensations for his solitary existence.<\/p>\n

Before the meal had ended, Hannes felt almost one of the family.\u00a0 He had never known real home life.\u00a0 His early struggle for existence had been too strenuous to allow leisure for gracious living.\u00a0 Now, at the Schumanns’, for the first time he was to know the joys of a cultured, well-ordered environment.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Source: <\/span>Goss, Madeleine & Schauffler, Robert (1943) Brahms The Master<\/span>. New York: Henry Holt and Company, pp.124-5.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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