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Library Reprints claimed Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III Schumann in Love—Ernestine von Fricken—A Broken Engagement —´ From Old Dreams to New ´—The Love that lived—Early Love-letters—Clara Wieck as Composer—Parental Opposition—A Move to Vienna—The Paper and ´Red Tape´—Devotion to Schubert—A Steel Pen—Composition in Vienna. Besides the start of the paper and his early musical compositions, another matter occupied the mind of Schumann in 1834. We have referred to his friendship for the accomplished Madame Henriette Voigt and the Schumann musical society which he met at her house. in Love That one of his romantic turn of mind should early become susceptible to the influence of charming and sympathetic womanhood was only to be expected. He had already dedicated his Opus i to a young lady named Abegg, whom he had met at a ball, though no sentiment beyond admiration is connected with the incident, as the maiden in question was beloved by one of his friends. Among old Wieck´s pupils was a certain Ernestine von Fricken, and for her Schumann appears to have now cherished a warmer feeling. In the summer of 1834 he wrote a very interesting letter1 to his ´ Early letter to his mother, from Leipzig, July 2, 1834. mother, in which he speaks of having lately met this young girl, and of being struck with the purity and innocence of her mind, and her devotion to the highest art ideals. Her rare talents as a musician are also referred to, and then Schumann confides in his mother that, were he to select a wife, his future choice would rest here. Strange to say, in the same letter he mentions the youthful Clara, who was then in Dresden, and he speaks of her genius becoming more and more evident, and of the remarkably able letters which she sometimes wrote to him. At the time it must be remembered that Clara Wieck, the noble and gif...