Clara Schumann: An Artist's Life Based on Material Found in Diaries and Letters - Vol II: 2 by Berthold Litzmann

Author:Berthold Litzmann [Litzmann, Berthold]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Read Books Ltd.
Published: 2013-04-16T03:00:00+00:00

FROM THE DIARY.

March 3rd. We went to the dear Hübners at Dresden, where we always feel ourselves at home. . . . As I was making rather a longer stay this time, I was able to see all my friends, and, above all, my parents, at leisure. . . . . . . . . . . .

. . . . The Karuses gave a little dinner for artists only. A dispute arose over Gounod’s Faust, in which I was delighted to find old Karus and Hübner quite of my opinion, while Rietz and Schubert saw a foolish sentimentality in our indignation over the mutilation of Gœthe’s Faust. Father has been very poorly lately, but he bore up wonderfully under this trial. I cannot bear to see him unwell. Return to Leipsic on the 13th.

The 15th. Livia made her Society sing me Robert’s Requiem, and I was quite surprised by the work, for I had not imagined such a fine effect. . . .

For the first time for many years, I played in Zwickau again . . . . quite a nice concert. . . . Dr Uhlmann and Dr Klitzsch had arranged everything excellently. My sister-in-law, Pauline Schumann, came with her daughter Anna, which gave me great pleasure as I had not seen them since Robert’s death. . . . She is a good and noble woman, and a real martyr. . . . On the 21st I played1) to poor Kistner for an hour, which seemed to give him great pleasure. . . .

The 26th Quartet-evening. I played Johannes’ A major quartet with great applause, much to my joy — and it went very well, I was inexorable, and David had to hold out until it went perfectly. The 27th. I spent an interesting hour at the Röntgens, and was once more struck by the enormous talent shown by little Julius1).

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