Talk:Clara Schumann

message: Calling a subject by their first name throughout the article seems a bit disrespectful. Given the problem that she often needs to be distinguished from her husband and father, it is acceptable to a certain degree, but I tried to avoid it when not needed. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:45, 12 September 2019 (UTC)
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I added back the original paragraph about her 1870s concertizing, with the 1874 U.S. tour and the concerts in England and Holland and the 1877 Beethoven 5th with Bargiel. Added the ref back to all of that; it got lost in the shuffle of sentences, and the part about her arm injury got mixed up with it (both originally posted by the same user, but as separate paragraphs).
The text now jumps from her 1870s concertizing and her arm injury, to her last concert in 1891. Could we get something about her performances in the 1880s to fill the gap?
Chuckstreet (talk) 01:07, 9 October 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: Thank you for digging into that. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:43, 9 October 2019 (UTC)

text: Only: I don't see a ref for a US tour. I looked in vol 1 and vol 2 of the offline source, and can't find it, not in the given pages nor anywhere else. (There's a vol 3 that I don't see, though.) I think a tour would show here, but all 1874 mentionings are not about it (but about reduced concertizing), nor do I find it anywhere else in that text, nor New York, nor U.S.. Help?? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:57, 9 October 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: The only thing I found referencing an 1874 tour in America looks suspiciously like the author was using Wikipedia as a source. Reaper Eternal (talk) 14:17, 9 October 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: No US tour mentioned in her entire concertizing history at www.schumann-portal.de either. But I see another problem: the dates of her arm injury and her refrain from concertizing appear to be incorrect. Judging by that concert list on the portal, the only large gap is between December 1873 and March 1875. No concertizing at all in 1874 (obviously no tour to US or anywhere). Also can we verify the correct date for the Beethoven 5th with Bargiel in Berlin? We have 1877, but I see no concert in Berlin in 1877 in the portal list. The only Berlin concerts in the 1870s were 1870, 1871, and 1875 (Oct-Dec), the next one after that was 1883 (there's a typo in two entries in that list there 1882->1883). Chuckstreet (talk) 16:05, 9 October 2019 (UTC)
replies: text:  I hope we can, just had a few other tasks. Perhaps "injury" isn't even the right word? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:08, 9 October 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: Rewrote the entire section, including info on concerts in 1880s, and her regular England tours, and listed more countries. I THINK those are the correct dates of her "injury"; please check the dates in Litzmann for me, re her visit and advice from the doctor, and that quote from her in May(?). Still don't know about the 1877 Berlin concert with Bargiel Beethoven 5th; please check this one. Chuckstreet (talk) 17:30, 9 October 2019 (UTC)
replies: text:  Thank you for the rewrite. Sorry, can't find that Bargiel Beethoven V concert. Remove? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:09, 9 October 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: The portal list says it omits performances in cities where she was living at the time, so that would be why no Berlin in 1877, and no Frankfurt in some other years. All I know is it wasn't the Berlin Philharmonic because that was founded in 1882. Clara played several times with them under Bargiel or Joachim or others conducting, in the 1880s, first time in 1883, Beethoven Choral Fantasy, later Beethoven 4th, no mention of 5th. The 1883 Choral Fantasy she played with her hand in pain from a staircase fall the day before, yet she got a standing ovation. For all accounts of her Berlin Phil concerts, they were all "tremendous successes". We could delete the 1877 ref and include the 1883 Choral Fantasy instead (with a mention of her hand injury in a letter to Brahms), but that was a different conductor; would be nice to mention Woldemar Bargiel somewhere in the article; this sentence is the only mention. What do you think? Chuckstreet (talk) 22:42, 9 October 2019 (UTC)

text:  All good ideas, go ahead ;) - Bargiel is mentioned often, also letters between him and her, that's easy to source. Always nice to see the Choral Fantasy mentioned which was my first choral performance, age 10 ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:13, 10 October 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: Okay, I'll get to it tomorrow or the weekend, I'm going to relax and binge-watch Star Trek right now. :-) Chuckstreet (talk) 05:57, 11 October 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Need more on her concertizing in the 1880s 

message: I found the Grove Online version by Reich (2011) yesterday, and sourced things that it covers to it. I can't see her older books, and after the experience with the US tour and Beethoven's 5th piano concerto, I don't trust the older offline sources given, also find that they clutter the reflist. Can we have Reich 2011 at least in addition? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:57, 10 October 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: I found the original reference for the Beethoven 5th 1877 Bargiel and the dates of her arm injury: Litzmann vol. 1 pages 322–323 (page numbers apparently vary between editions, though). I notice for one of them you cite Litzmann vol. 2, page 42 and a Google Books link; I'll have to check that out. I fixed up many more refs today; still some <ref> to be converted to . The Reich Grove is only a tiny 2 pages, written in 2001; the various text on the page that you cited as ref in Reich Grove isn't mentioned in that tiny article; it's in the Reich book, also published in 2001. The book is available online, Google Books. Some of the older refs (not counting Litzmann) have cute quotes which I like, so I put them back in :) Chuckstreet (talk) 05:54, 11 October 2019 (UTC)
replies: text:  The Reich I like to quote in addition is this, it was updated on 23 February 2011, and makes for easy verify, much easier than for individual pages of a book even if online. It also has a complete works list, and a good bibliography, all concise. - Thank you for chasing the 5th concerto! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:17, 11 October 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes that's the 2-page article written for Grove's 7th (the print ed.) in 2001. There's not much information in it, compared to other sources like Reich's book or Litzmann. Even the Wikipedia article is twice as long. The only thing "updated" in Grove's 8th (the online ed.) is a bibliography in 2011; the text of the article (and the list of compositions) haven't been updated since 2001. In fact, I've found new info on compositions since that was published. But my point in changing some of your new sfn refs to point to the full book instead of the 2-page article, is that some of the WP text you're referencing isn't found in the article but in the book. The Groves 8th you added in several sfn's is still referenced on this page, however; I just corrected the date. Chuckstreet (talk) 17:01, 11 October 2019 (UTC)
replies: text:  Thank you for explaining, - I still think that it's convenient for some things. Choir rehearsla now. Sorry about no time. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 17:22, 11 October 2019 (UTC)

text: I think the more different references we have, the more well-rounded the article will be. I don't think it's good for an entire article to be based on only one or even two references (Reich and maybe Litzmann in this case). Would seem to be biased or one-sided. The more sources the better. As for the oldness of the sources, I find nothing wrong with that (Litzmann is over a century old after all), as long as the information or assertions haven't been proven wrong by later research. Chuckstreet (talk) 15:32, 12 October 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Reich refs 

message: This sentence under Child Prodigy (last sentence of paragraph 2) seems silly to me:
:He would sometimes dress up as a ghost and scare Clara, creating a bond between the two.
The source reference is
:Reich, Susanna (1999). Clara Schumann: Piano Virtuoso,. New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. p. 28. ISBN 0-618-55160-3,
a children's book, which explains the silliness. It's cute, but seems out of place and rather jarring in this article, don't you think? I vote for its deletion. Chuckstreet (talk) 15:47, 12 October 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: agree --Gerda Arendt (talk) 18:59, 12 October 2019 (UTC)

text: I removed the sentence and ref, but that leaves the previous sentences without a reference. I believe they're from the same children's book, though I find those sentences useful and not silly. Can we find another reference for them? Chuckstreet (talk) 14:34, 15 October 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: I believe that Clara recalls Robert's ghost stories in some of the correspondence included in this work, which might be useful as a source for other details of their early life. I'm not entirely sure what would be the modern view of an 18 year-old boy taking an interest in a 9 year-old girl.  Martinevans123 (talk) 14:46, 15 October 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sentences to be removed? 

message: I see that the Susanna Reich (1999) source cites a specific page number. However, it's not clear where in the article that source is cited, as I couldn't find a shortened footnote anywhere. AmericanLemming (talk) 03:04, 16 October 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: Fixed. Chuckstreet (talk) 05:53, 16 October 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Susanna Reich source 

message: I don't see any activity on this article talk page for two months, so I thought I'd write here now and describe what I added to the article. Saw it was a bit lacking with some questioning statements without explanation in the section "Relation to composers", which I renamed "Relation to composers and controversy" (and someone else has now renamed War of the Romantics), about how Clara Schumann hated Liszt and Wagner and Bruckner, personally disliked them as well as their music it seems, but didn't say why.
I found the answers in the Wikipedia article War of the Romantics, which said Clara Schumann was basically the leader of this war against the newer composers, so I copied a sufficient amount of the information from that page to this one. I copied over the sources from that article too, though I think maybe they're too many, looks a bit cluttered with superscript numbers. Perhaps someone can weed it out, weedwacker you know. And maybe it's too much description anyway; possibly a briefer explanation and a link to the WOTR article if the reader wants to know more. Otherwise, enjoy!
Oh, I included stuff slightly biased toward Clara Schumann's side and not Liszt's side, even though I personally feel she doesn't deserve the deference, but I was nice to her because this is after all an article about HER. If anyone thinks it needs more balance here like the WOTR article has it, then feel free to rewrite.
In truth, Liszt took the high road and never personally attacked Clara or her co-conspirators like Brahms, nor denigrated their music, quite the opposite. The same cannot be said for the spiteful and annoying, backward-thinking Clara however (bitter she was after her famous husband's attempted suicide, institutionalization, and death). Liszt's supporters did the backbiting, including Wagner. And Brahms, for his part didn't really have his heart in such a war, he just wanted to be nice to Clara who he was in love with and valued her support of him, but he secretly liked the new music of Liszt and Wagner. It was really a one-woman war, and a public cat-fight between her and Liszt's daughter, Wagner's wife Cosima I didn't include because it wasn't in the WOTR article. I didn't add any new material. For reference, most of the material and more is in Alan Walker's book about Liszt's Weimar years. LisztianEndeavors (talk) 01:06, 12 January 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  War of the Romantics