Robert and Clara Schumann's early days

Three Movements for Six Hands is an historical novel about Robert and Clara Schumann and the young unknown, Johannes Brahms. It is being offered to subscribers, who will receive an autographed copy of the book before the rest of public. The target publication date is May 7, 2015, the birth date of Johannes Brahms.

Robert Schumann (pictured) first met his piano teacher's young daughter Clara when he was 18 and she was only 9. They became secretly engaged when they were 24 and 15, had their first kiss a year later and met secretly in Dresden a few months after that. Robert asked Clara's father for her hand in marriage when she turned 18 and he refused, believing Schumann had no future as a concert pianist. The couple petitioned the Court of Appeals for permission to marry without her father's consent and won, but they did not exercise that privilege until one day before her 21st birthday.

Our story takes place much later in their lives, when Robert was 43 and Clara was 34 and they met Johannes Brahms at the tender age of 20.

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