[Kamefu] I entreat you by all that is sacre

[Makos <ste...@gr...>]

D succeed in composing something which would impel the public, after
hearing you play it, to run against the walls in their delight; for vain
we composers are, even though we have no reason to be so." It must have
given him a strange shock when an amateur asked him, at one of his
wife's concerts in Vienna, if he also was musical! In her efforts to win
appreciation for her husband, Clara was nobly assisted by Liszt. Just
like Wagner, Schumann was not at first very favorably impressed with
Liszt, owing to the sensational flavor of his early performances. But he
soon changed his mind, especially when Liszt played some of his
(Schumann's) compositions. "Many things were different from my
conception of them, but always '_genial_,' and marked by a tenderness
and boldness of expression which even he presumably has not at his
command every day. Becker was the only other person present, and he had
tears in his eyes." And two days later: "But I must tell