![]() ![]() 47, was sketched between October 24 and 30 and completed within a month. 44, was sketched in only five days-the complete score was finished on October 12-while the Quartet, Op. The two works for piano and strings were written even more quickly: the Quintet, Op. By July 22, all three of the Opus 41 quartets were finished. In April, he ordered the scores of all the Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven string quartets then in print, and on June 4th began to write a string quartet of his own. 1842 was Schumann’s year of chamber music. ![]() Unlike his friends Mendelssohn, Chopin, and Brahms, all of whom were meticulous and methodical in their working habits, Schumann composed the bulk of his music in white-hot fits of inspiration. Schumann wrote a number of works for his talented wife to perform, among them the Piano Quintet in E-flat. Few other romances in the history of music have yielded as much important work. A dozen years later, the two were married, forever altering his life and the subsequent course of Romantic art. Robert Schumann first met Clara Wieck when he was 18 and she was nine. ![]()
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