Clara Schumann's great love
Clara Schumann's Great Love is an American film from 1947. It deals with the life of the pianist Clara Schumann (née Wieck); The play Song of Love by Mario Silva and Bernard Schubert served as a literary model .
In 1950, Clara Schumann's great love for the short film The Schumann Story was reworked.
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After the young pianist Clara Wieck successfully the First Piano Concerto by Franz Liszt has been listed, they are against the will of her father Friedrich Wieck, the piece reverie of the then unknown composer Robert Schumann , Wieck's longtime students, as mixing and snubbed her father with the message, that she and Robert will get married. The latter considers Robert Schumann unsuitable as his daughter's husband and instigates a lawsuit, which, however, ends victoriously for the young couple under Liszt's influence.
A few years later, the couple, to whom several children have since been born, receives a visit from the young musician Johannes Brahms , who wants to study with Schumann. Brahms moves in with the Schumanns as Roberts' student and helps with housekeeping.
Over time, the Schumann couple had to struggle with various worries: Robert had noises in his ears and repeated headaches. Initially, Dr. Hoffman overworks and recommends recovery, but soon comes to the assumption that Schumann could herald the outbreak of a familial nervous disease. In addition to Robert's health problems, there are financial worries, which Robert tries to solve by composing his new work Scenes from Goethe's Faust . First without his knowledge and then under his protest, Clara turns to the publisher Haslinger to organize a concert with Clara. After the concert, however, Clara refuses Haslinger's offer to tour Europe because she prefers to look after her husband and children.
In the meantime Brahms has developed more than just friendly feelings for Clara and therefore wants to leave the Schumann household. When Clara meets him packing his suitcase, she tries to prevent him from doing so, but lets him go when he confesses his love to her.
When Haslinger rejected Robert's piece, Liszt made contact with the composer Carl Reinecke ; the work can still be performed. During the performance, however, Schumann suffers a breakdown; he is admitted to the psychiatric ward and dies a little later.
A few years later, the widowed Clara Schumann receives a visit from Brahms and initially declines his invitation to the world premiere of his First Symphony in Cologne, but then visits it. After the concert, Johannes declares his love for her again and asks her to marry him. However, Clara refuses and decides to give concerts with her husband's music in order to consolidate his memory for the world. The film closes with a concert by the aged Clara Schumann, who plays Robert Schumann's Träumerei as an encore .
synchronization
The German version of the film has the following voice actors :
| role | actor | Voice actor |
|---|---|---|
| Clara Schumann | Katharine Hepburn | Katrin Miclette |
| Robert Schumann | Paul Henreid | Christian Rode |
Reviews
The lexicon of international films wrote that the film was a “biographical film about Clara Schumann, which, however, dealt freely with historical data” and was “burdened with Hollywood clichés”. The staging is also "light-handed, with humorous sequences, but sentimentally glorifying Robert Schumann's life".
Web links
- Song of Love in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Clara Schumann's great love in the German synchronkartei.de synchronkartei.de
- ^ Clara Schumann's great love in the Lexicon of International Film