It is typical of Schumann's musical thinking to construct t… - Charles Rosen

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It is typical of Schumann's musical thinking to construct this complex network of references outside his music-to quote Beethoven, and then to have Beethoven's distant beloved refer to Clara. But this should give a clue to the nature of Schumann's achievement. It is not Schumann's music that, refers to Clara but Beethoven's melody, the "secret tone."

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Charles Welles Rosen (May 5, 1927 – December 9, 2012) was an American pianist and writer on music.

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