As clear as this image may be, great efforts are required to faithfully retrace its delicately chiselled features, as words and pen seem too clumsy and untoward for this purpose. This unusual woman,full of liveliness, standsbefore the author’s eyes, in the way he saw her for the first time 48 years ago.
What was there so special about this woman? Was it the simple nobleness of her physical appearance, the hair, grey and adorned with a little cap, the soulful eyes, tranquil and serious, contemplative and asking, the low, somewhat lisping voice, or the affectionate warm pressure of her well-formed hand? Was it the self-effacement and placidness, the softness and mildness of her quiet manner, or the serenity gained from a life that was as much rich as hard, which expressed itself in her movements, words and gestures always and everywhere? Did this placidness and self-effacement not dampen any quickness, any unnatural exuberance, the cockiness of the young facing her? Was there not the silent shadow of hidden, well-guarded grief passing now and then over the noble face as an admonition that nobody had admission to this sanctuary? Of those who ever had the privilege and good fortune of meeting Clara Schumann, who would not have felt the great charm surrounding her person, who would have been able to elude the charm emanating from her?
Memorial Page on the Occasion of the Centenary of the Master’s Birth 200th anniversary of Clara Schumann’s birth in 2019.200th anniversary of Robert Schumann’s birth in 2010.Reviews published in the Schumann Journal 1-10.Retrospects on …, Schumann Journal 1-10.Conference Reports (Schumann Journal 1-10).Appreciations in the Schumann Journal 1-10.Obituaries in the Schumann Journal 1-10.Scientific articles, Schumann Journal 1-10.Clara Wieck’s Journey with her father in Fictionalised Biographies.
First editions and early prints (Brahms Institute in Lübeck).
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