Selected Songs for Solo Voice and Piano

Selected Songs for Solo Voice and PianoThe year 1840 proved a momentous one for Robert Schumann: after an interval of twelve years, he resumed writing songs, producing some 150 vocal compositions within the year; and in September, after a long and stormy courtship, he married his beloved Clara Wieck. During this period, Schumanns biographers represent him as being caught in a tempest of song, transfiguring the emotions aroused by his love for Clara into a splendid outpouring of sublime

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Examinations of the science of imperial Rome ― including Roman mathematics

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a tale of flirtation

lively personal anecdotes

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