Excerpt from Schumann
Schumann, as editor, essayist and composer, occupies a unique and striking position. His early literary culture and poetic tendencies, as his subsequent work in connection with the Neue Zeitschrift fur Musik, rendered him a man of many parts. Thus it happens that, if we consider him from his many aspects of endeavour, he appeals to a wider art circle than that which is bounded within the pale of Music alone. Yet, in the realm proper of music, after a very limited period of healthful activity, Schumann left behind him specimens of well-nigh every form of classical composition, in all of which he attained to a high and rare artistic standard of originality and excellence.
So great, indeed, were Schumann's claims upon the public for recognition as a musician that, whereas more than one admirable biography exists of the composer, narrators scarcely penetrate beyond historical data and critical notices of his works, leaving the man - as he appears in his essays and letters - but partially known to us. We have it upon the authority of Madame Clara Schumann herself that, particularly from his private correspondence, it is easiest to arrive at a just estimate of the sterling personal traits of her husband.
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