John White:

>both Robert and Clara appear to have been extremely talented musicians
>and composers, Yet none of their several children seem to have made it
>into the musical history books.  Surely, if the laws Mendelian genetics
>mean anything, this should not be so.

An interesting case, but this assumes, among other things, that musical
genius is a dominant gene and, since it is so rare, this is unlikely.
Maybe it is some kind of genetic mutation that simply does not get passed
on.  We really don't know.

Jim Tobin