2017年6月19日月曜日

Pre-TOEFL Reading, Summary (L. 10)

Robert Schumann

Robert Schumann was the friend of Felix Mendelssohn and the e          stic friend and teacher of Johannes Brahms and many other younger c         s. He was the first to write music about children and the e           ces of childhood. He was an i      se, s    tive man who could have been a fine writer if he had not been a composer. He was born near Leipzig in 1810. His father, who was an e    tor and p    shier, wanted him to be a l   yer. He o    tly studied law, but what he really wanted to be was a pianist. His i          ce made him use a m         cal d    ce to exercise and s     then his fingers and the i          ment injured one of his fingers p           tly, ending his dream of becoming a concert pianist. After the injury, he d    ted himself to composing and writing. With a group of musicians and writers, he f    ded a musical magazine, for which he wrote a     les to express different points of view about music, using names of i            ry characters he created. He also p         ted good music and the other arts and defended them against una          tive people.

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