Tag: The Schumanns and Johannes Brahms

The Schumanns and Johannes BrahmsYear: 1991Author: Eugenie SchumannLength: 217 pages In performing research for my own historical fiction book, I've read a lot of books about Clara Schumann and the Schumann family. Some of these biographies have been about Robert Schumann, and others about Clara herself. The Schumanns and Johannes Brahms was one of the more interesting books I read, as it is technically a memoir of one of Robert and Clara's children, Eugenie Schumann. As such, this memoir had a unique flavor from the biographies I had been reading. Of course, as Robert had died while Eugenie was quite young, this was a section of the memoir that was not possible to expand upon. It would have been interesting to get more of a sense of how Clara and Robert acted around their kids, but such is the tragedy of this life cut too short. Fortunately, the focus of my research was Clara Schumann, and this book had details in spades....