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Use in Literature

Schumann

From Weimar I went to Leipzig where a truly poetical evening awaited me with Robert Schumann.–Hans Christian Andersen in True Story of My Life.

Sister Pomona was altogether an exceptional pianist, her interpretation of items by Schumann and Mendelssohn being little short of a revelation.–Percy James Brebner in The Master Detective (Being Some Further Investigations of Christopher Quarles).

From him Thea had learned something about the works of Gluck and Bach, and he used to play her some of the compositions of Schumann.–Willa Cather in Song of the Lark.

In his trunk he had a mutilated score of the F sharp minor sonata, which he had heard Clara Schumann play at a festival in Leipsic.–Willa Cather in Song of the Lark.

I sang ‘Ein Jungling liebt ein Maedchen,’ of Schumann, and when I came to the line, ‘Und wem das just passieret, dem bricht das Herz entzwei,’ I heard a mournful sigh.–L. de Hegermann-Lindencrone in In the Courts of Memory 1858-1875.

As Schumann declared, the dancers of these valses should be at least countesses.–James Huneker in Chopin: The Man and His Music.

Compare him with Schumann, and the genuine romanticist tops the virtuoso.–James Huneker in Chopin: The Man and His Music.

For Schumann this Scherzo is Byronic in tenderness and boldness.–James Huneker in Chopin: The Man and His Music.

He needs must invent some of his own, and when Schumann saw the pages of op.–James Huneker in Chopin: The Man and His Music.

He was sincere, and his survival, when nearly all of Mendelssohn, much of Schumann and half of Berlioz have suffered an eclipse, is proof positive of his vitality.–James Huneker in Chopin: The Man and His Music.

• Preface iv
• Use in Literature 1
• Schumann 1
• Schumann – "Beethoven" 5
• Schumann – "Chopin" 5
• Schumann – "Music" 6
• Nonfiction Usage 8
• Journalism Usage 8
• Patent Usage 8
• Bibliographic Usage 21
• Encyclopedic Usage 131
• Lexicographic Usage 135
• Index 143