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    1) Robert Schumann considered The Well-Tempered Clavier by J.S. Bach to be essential practice for musicians and called it "your daily bread." 2) Schumann studied the fugues from The Well-Tempered Clavier individually and "dissected them down to their minutest parts" for their strengthening effect. 3) Clara Schumann's diary entry from 1840 discusses studying the fugues from The Well-Tempered Clavier with Robert and being reprimanded for doubling a part in octaves, adding an impermissible fifth voice.

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    1) Robert Schumann considered The Well-Tempered Clavier by J.S. Bach to be essential practice for musicians and called it "your daily bread." 2) Schumann studied the fugues from The Well-Tempered Clavier individually and "dissected them down to their minutest parts" for their strengthening effect. 3) Clara Schumann's diary entry from 1840 discusses studying the fugues from The Well-Tempered Clavier with Robert and being reprimanded for doubling a part in octaves, adding an impermissible fifth voice.

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    Schumann and Counterpoint

    “The Well Tempered Clavier should be your daily bread”

    -Robert Schumann, Advice to Young Musicians, 1848

    “A few months ago I finished my theoretical course with Dorn, having got as far as canons, which I have
    been studying by myself after Marpurg, who is a capital theorist. Otherwise Sebastian Bach’s Well-
    Tempered Clavier is my grammar, and is certainly the best. I have taken the fugues one by one, and
    dissected them down to their minutest parts. The advantage of this is great, and seems to have a
    strengthening moral effect upon one’s whole system; for Bach was a thorough man, all over, there is
    nothing sickly or stunted about him, and his works seem written for eternity.”

    -Robert Schumann, 1832 letter

    “We have started with the Fugues of Bach [from The Well-Tempered Clavier—MR]; Robert marks those
    places where the theme always returns—studying these fugues is really quite interesting and gives me
    more pleasure each day. Robert reprimanded me very strongly; I had doubled one place in octaves, and
    thus impermissibly added a fifth voice to the four-voice texture. He was right to denounce this, but it
    pained me not to have sensed it myself.”

    -Clara Schumann, September 1840 diary entry

    “I lost every melody as soon as I conceived it.”

    -Robert Schumann, 1845 letter

    “The fugue as we now know it, is, so to speak, the keystone of counterpoint. . . . [Cherubini calls the
    fugue the] veritable archetype of all musical composition. And in truth, to the extent that they proceed
    from the very deepest understanding of the art form, practically all masterpieces—including those in a
    somewhat freer mode—may be traced back to the Fugue form.”

    -Robert Schumann, 1848 “A Textbook for Composing Fugues”

    “[I] have learned more counterpoint from Jean Paul than from my music teacher.”

    -Robert Schumann, unspecified

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