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SCHUMANN. of his unpublished letters and of obtaining much information at first hand from persons who were in intimate relations with him.

[App. p.791: "Add that a complete edition of the works of Schumann has been undertaken by the firm of Breitkopf & Härtel, who are also issuing a 'Volksausgabe' of the same at a very moderate price."]

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SCHUMANN, wife of the foregoing, one of the greatest pianoforte players that the world has ever heard, was the daughter of ../Wieck, Friedrich, and was born at Leipzig, Sept. 13, 1819. She began the PF. at a very early age under her father's guidance; and on Oct. 20, 1828, when she had just completed her ninth year, made her début in public at a concert of Miss Perthaler's, where she played with Emilie Reinhold in Kalkbrenner's 4-hand variations on the March from Moïse. The notices in the Leipzig Tageblatt and A.M.Z. show that