Brahms - Variations on a Theme of Robert Schumann, Op. 9 - Katchen

Brahms - 16 Variations on a Theme of Robert Schumann, Op. 9 Julius Katchen, piano By May of 1854 Robert Schumann was an asylum inmate, and Clara had given birth to their seventh child. The family began to increasingly rely on the friendship of the young Johannes Brahms, who helped to care for the children and manage Schumann’s business and artistic affairs. Over the course of that summer, Brahms brought to Clara in piecemeal a series of variations on a theme from Schumann’s Bunte Blätter, Op. 9, which Clar