Alltag und Kunstlertum: Clara Schumann und ihre Freundinnen Marie von Lindeman und Emilie Steffens. Erinnerungen und Briefe, nach den Quellen
2006; Oxford University Press; Volume: 88; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1093/ml/gcl065
ISSN1477-4631
Autores Tópico(s)Musicology and Musical Analysis
Resumo‘Give my little ones, for whom I yearn so much, 1000 kisses.’ . . . ‘Do you have soup every evening? . . . Do have [the cook] prepare meat at least four times a week’ (letters from Clara Schumann to Emilie Steffens from Hamburg, 12 and 18 March 1850, pp. 100 and 101 in this book). Clara and Robert Schumann had left Dresden for a concert tour in March 1850 and asked Emilie Steffens, an 18-year-old piano student of Clara’s, to supervise the children, household servants, and home. In June of that year Emilie was called on again to stay with the five children when the parents went to Leipzig for the premiere of Robert’s opera Genoveva. When Clara decided to surprise her husband on his birthday, 8 June, with a visit from their two eldest daughters, Marie and Elise, she sent Emilie detailed instructions about preparing the girls for their visit: what clothes to bring, a reminder to give them baths, wash their hair, and comb it properly. She added: ‘I am alarmed at how much I am asking you to do; unfortunately, it cannot be helped. I am very much looking forward to the children and also to you, my dear Emilie’ (p. 108). Clara Schumann’s solicitude for her children is evident in the frequent letters to Emilie while she was away.
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