The Long Wait (novel) Zhang Baotong 2016.9.10

7. Eventually become a family

At the age of 19, Schumann met Clara, who was only 9 years old at the time, and fell in love with her. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info 7 years later, they privately made a lifelong commitment. Due to her father's objections, Clara and Schumann went through 11 months of lengthy litigation before they were married on Clara's 21st birthday.

This kind of love and marriage came from a hard time, and it also made Schumann and Clara cherish it. Because of the hard work she has been working lately and the long litigation of the past 11 months, Clara found that Schumann was not in a good mental state, so she decided to go on a trip with Schumann to relax and get his body back to health. And, she also wants to put on some shows there.

Their new life began with a trip to Russia and Italy. Russia is refreshing and beautiful in autumn. Horse-drawn carriages traveled along the vast steppes leading to the territory of Russia. It was early one morning, looking out the window, the blue sky, a snow-white cloud was rolling long, long, as if imprinted in the sky, dividing the sky in half. After a while, the white clouds drifted away, and the sky was as clear as a sapphire.

The two newcomers were holding hands and looking out the window. At this point, Clara was just thinking back to how they had overcome the odds together and won the case together. This made them feel that love was not easy to come by, but also felt some regrets. Because she didn't want their mentor, her dear father, to suffer a crushing defeat. But there's no way around it, it's a black-and-white choice, and if they can't win the case, they can't be together right now.

Schumann, on the other hand, seemed to be immersed in a kind of contemplation. After a while, he let go of her hand, picked up the sheet music from the side, and began to compose notes in the five-line grid like a spring of joy. When Clara saw that he was creating, she didn't bother him, and continued to look at the vast grassland outside the carriage window.

Half an hour later, Schumann brought the score to Clara. Clara looked at the title of the sheet music as "Dedication", and the lyrics read, "You are my life, my heart, you are the earth, I live there, you are the sky, I fly there......" of course she knew that this was a poem from the famous poet Lucket's "Dedication". So, knowingly, he asked, "To whom is this music dedicated?"

Schumann smiled kindly at her and said, "To my dearest." Her name is Clara Vic. ”

Hearing this, Clara put her arms around Schumann, kissed him, and began to hum the score. The music is very soothing and elegant, solemn and beautiful. Clara said happily, "I really want to play this piece right now." ”

They came to St. Petersburg and gave Clara a solo piano recital. After that, they went to Italy. The comfortable temperatures in Italy made Schumann feel good, and his mental state improved significantly. Here they met Liszt. The Hungarian musician, known as the "King of the Piano", was highly recommended and highly praised by Schumann. Their meeting led to a sensational performance of the "King of the Piano" and a two-piano ensemble of Europe's most famous female pianist.

After that, they settled in Berlin, where Clara began teaching piano at the Hochschule für Musique in Frankfurt. At this time, she was pregnant, but she was still busy all day. During the day, she was busy teaching, and when she came back in the evening, she began to cook, and then admired and judged Schumann's new works. Schumann, on the other hand, concentrated on his work. For various reasons, Schumann was in poverty and depression for many years, and Clara's love and marriage led him to a happy life. His talent and talent began to explode. In one year, Schumann's musical composition reached its peak, with more than 100 pieces and three sets of musical stories. Almost all the important works of his life were completed in this year. The first person to appreciate and evaluate many works was his lover Clark. It was Clark's excellent talent and strong love that supported the emotionally fragile Schumann to spread the wings of talent. She said to Schumann, "My dear, no one has ever been so good as you, and all my love for you is not enough to express my admiration and admiration for you." ”

In the spring of the following year, Schumann composed the Spring Symphony, the first and most important symphony of his life, in eight major keys. This purely lyrical work expresses Schumann's vision of a new life after marriage. The beautiful melody of spring is exactly the mood he and Clara share. The French horn and trumpet, flute, and oboe in the adagio introduction respond to each other's hearts as if they were the hearts of the two of them, and at the same time play the rhythm of the revival of all things in spring, the rhythm of turning yellow to green, and the most touching lyricism that lingers in their hearts. The most fascinating is the second movement, the small panboard, which Schumann named Night. Still the familiar violin, as well as the French horn and oboe, tender like water, like a song, with a melancholy tune, like the night breeze, like the fragrance of flowers, like a warm touch, like a whisper, it is a love song and nocturne dedicated to Clara, no wonder Clara said excitedly after listening to it, "I am completely occupied by joy." ”

This is Schumann's only piano concerto, and some say that this concerto contains Schumann's painful memories, because remembering his difficult love affair with Clara, the thorny road along the way inevitably makes him feel terrified. In fact, it was on such a road that Schumann's spirit had become problematic. In this concerto, however, this uneasiness lurks only in joy, and painful memories are only fleeting. What a wonderful movement of the solo piano in the second movement against the background of the cello, the delicate and beautiful, the resonant and refreshing charming, the tactfulness of the milk swallow out of the valley and the delicacy of the drizzle of fish, so that we can all see the shadow of the Clara people, we can all imagine the new image of the daughter's new life, and we can touch Schumann's clear heart that splashes and jumps like spring water.

In the summer of the same year, Schumann wrote another important work of his work, the Concerto Fantasy for piano in A minor. It was dedicated to his and Clara's children, because at the end of the summer of the year, their lovely little angel baby daughter was born. The birth of this little angel added a lot of joy to this family of two.

Clara, known for her early performances of Beethoven's works and later for her performances of Chopin and Schumann, performed in a dignified and elegant manner, with precise technique, and composed piano concertos, characteristic pieces, and art songs, while teaching piano at the Frankfurt Higher Conservatory in Berlin, while compiling and organizing the Complete Works of Robert Schumann. Their mutual love and mutual support contributed to Schumann's achievement as a world-famous musician.

The first draft was September 15, 2016

The second draft is September 15, 2016