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2 April, 11:13

Determined to become a piano virtuoso, this composer moved to Leipzig to study music. Hopes for a career as a virtuoso were dashed when he/she permanently damaged his/her right hand. Thereafter all his/her creative energies were poured to musical composition and criticism; he/she became an advocate for new music within the German Romantic movement, supporting the works of such "radical" young composers as Berlioz, Chopin, Mendelssohn, and Brahms.

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    Determined to become a piano virtuoso-Robert Schumann, who was a German pianist, composer and music critic-initially went to the University of Leipzig to study law-but he did so under the influence of his family. Schumann later abandoned the study of law, and worked on his dreams to become virtuoso pianist. However, he had a hand injury which ended aspirations to and made him to concentrate on composing. He became interested in the works of Mendelssohn, Schubert, Chopin, Berlioz and Brahms, amongst other composers.
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