Anne Ozorio wrote concerning Clara Schumann: >... She was a workaholic from childhood right to the end of her life. >Pregnancy and childbirth annoyed her because it made her take time off >work. It was she who managed a lot of the couple's business dealings >and was much tougher than R. When they fled Dresden in 1848 (leaving >the kids without proper attention) it was she who went back to get stuff >he left behind. She was after all the tough cookie who stood up to her >father and helped R sue the old man in order to marry her. R died when >she was quite young so she might have written more, but she couldn't >stop touring and playing. She claimed they needed the money, true, but >they weren't exactly poor either. I would think Robert's personality and mental problems would make composing impossible for a spouse...how he managed to write anything at all is a miracle to me...and how she manged to put up with him...she must have loved him dearly. Karl