Robert and Clara Schumann were one of the most high-powered artistic couples in 19th century Prussia. Clara was a phenomenon for her time as a female keyboard virtuoso and composer and Robert was a composer and an influential critic. Naomi Lewin explains how their marriage could never be separated from their art.
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