Excerpt from Early Letters of Robert Schumann These letters will be welcome to very many. The admirers of Schumann now number thousands in England, and the feeling towards him is a personal one - love of a friend, not admiration of a composer. It was not so always; but we have gained by the experience of thirty years. Everyone who loves him will be glad to see what manner of youth he was; how the character which we know in his music was built up; the difficulties he had, and how he subdued them; his strong love to his mother and family, and how irresistibly he was drawn against all obstacles to the art in which he became so great a master. The disclosures respecting his early compositions are hardly less interesting. The information on the origin of the early piano pieces, the first still-unpublished Symphony, the Songs - which seem to have sprung up, as it were, in a night - and all the rest, will be greedily welcomed by those who delight in this interesting branch of history. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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