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เรื่องราว รักสามเส้าของ Johannes Brahms / Clara Schumann / Robert Schumann

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          The story goes that once composer Johannes Brahms came to study with Robert Schumann in 31 September 1853 he played Sonata No.1 that he composed and then Clara hear and come to see when he play finish Robert said he could see no reason to suggest he has own style genius! and later he become a friend with them and moved in with his friend Robert Schumann and Schumann's wife Clara, a passion grew between Brahms and Clara (14 years his senior). People say that the love triangle between the two friends and Clara became an influential factor in Brahms' writing 

          There's much speculation over this, though. Brahms' feelings about love and the opposite sex, for that matter, is peculiar: "I would as soon write an opera as marry" he once wrote. He never did either (despite writing over 200 lieder).

 

          Robert Schumann died a helpless death. Events leading up to his death include, but are not limited to, attempted suicide (which landed him in a mental sanatorium), mental illness, and syphilis.Brahms entered into the Schumanns' lives at a critical point in time. It was like a transition of sorts: Johannes shows up on their doorstep when he's 20, Robert slowly climbs into the loony bin, Clara is left at home with Johannes while Robert does his thing at the mental sanatorium, Johannes essentially becomes the head of the household, Robert dies and Johannes moves in an apartment above Robert's and Clara's home where he gives up his art to devote his time to Clara. 

 

All of that is in a nutshell what essentially happened.

 

          Yet, if there really was a romantic connection between Clara and Johannes, then why didn't anything ever come out of it? I mean, yes, he did move into the upstairs apartment, but maybe he did so because he was naturally a really selfless guy and felt he owed something to Clara and the Schumann family in general. What caused Johannes' passion? Why would he put himself in a situation that would ultimately set up him up for disappointment? Surely he knew he'd be miserable knowing Clara was missing her dead husband--right?

          This sounds like an awesome romantic movie plot. And in fact, the situation of Brahms and the Schumanns are just illuminations of what was very common in the classical music world in the 1800s-1900s--Beethoven wrote a letter to his "Immortal Beloved" of which included three sections addressed to some woman for whom Beethoven clearly had feelings, and yet, he never sent the letter--another mystery in classical music history,

Schubert intended to marry a young soprano but couldn't because he financiallysupport a marriage, Mahler was in love with his wife, Alma, but she didn't love him back necessarily.In the classical music world have many things interest but you didn't know

http://uniontheater-greenroom.blogspot.com/2012/04/was-it-really-love-triangle-brahms-and.html

 

 

 

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