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Johnson is, of course, also the curator and unifying musical force of this series, accompanying his hand-picked selection of singers β some of the greatest lieder performers of today, and indeed of tomorrow β with utter sensitivity. She looks after him for two and a half years before he returns to his parental home in Owing to the success of the family business it is now possible for August Schumann to buy a house of his own: the family moves into a new dwelling in the Amtgasse, the home of the young Robert for eleven years, where his talents in both literature and music develop side by side.
This dwelling is razed to the ground in March He begins Greek and French lessons. In August he goes to Karlsbad with his mother, where he encounters for the first time Ignaz Moscheles β This great pianist becomes his idol and Robert decides to emulate himβhe intensifies his piano studies.
He falls in love for the first timeβwith Emilie Lorenz who ten years later will marry his older brother Julius and become his sister-in-law. He begins to compose poetry and writes and produces a small play with school friends. It is probably in this year that he visits Dresden for the first time. He falls in love with Ida StΓΆlzel, daughter of a Zwickau landlord. He later records that his love of music at this age and his longing to be a pianist were almost in the order of a sickness.
