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[Robert Schumann] Marie and Eugenie Schumann
Collection of autograph letters by Schumann's daughters Marie and Eugenie, to Ernst Rudorff
Schumann, Marie. Fifty-seven autograph letters signed ("Marie Schumann"; "M. Sch.") to Ernst Rudorff, and two autograph letters signed to Rudorff's daughter Elisabeth, referring to other family members, mentioning Brahms, her mother Clara and her diary, Joachim, Bulthaupt, and Herzogenberg, discussing Litzmann's biography of Clara, and many other matters
...Der Abend, den Sie mit Brahms bei meiner Mutter gebrachten, wo er von den Händelvariationen sprach war jedenfalls der zwischen Weihnachten und Neujahr, "wo Johannes recht schön Schubert spielte". Meine Mutter hat wohl in späteren Jahren, (seitdem sie am Konservatorium unterrichtete[)] Buch über die Schüler und über die Stücke, die sie studierten geführt...
c.300 pages, mostly 8vo, nine on postcards, a few with autograph envelopes, with two telegrams from Marie Schumann to Rudorff, Interlaken, Frankfurt and elsewhere, 1896-1914
Schumann, Eugenie. Five autograph letters signed ("Eugenie Schumann"; "E. Sch."), two partly dictated and in another hand, to members of the Rudorff family, recommending a pupil, thanking Rudorff for the dedication of some piano pieces, describing the attempts of her partner to play them, referring to her memoirs, the unpleasant fight concerning her father's violin concerto, and also to Rudorff's nature conservation work 
...Ich musste an den unangenehmen Kampf um das Violinkonzert alle meine Kräfte setzen...
19 pages, with an offprint of an article by Eugenie concerning her father's violin concerto in D minor, Manchester, Ascona and elsewhere, 1904-1938
together with: two autograph letters by Elise Sommerhoff, née Schumann (1843-1928), one addressed to Rudorff, the other unaddressed and on a postcard, 4 pages, 1909 and 1913; two autograph letters from Ferdinand Schumann to Elisabeth Rudorff, 14 pages, one on a postcard, 1909 and 1952; and a typed copy of a letter by Bettina von Arnim to A.F. Rudorff (the original letter apparently dated by Ernst Rudorff possibly to 1831)
Marie Schumann (1841-1929) was the Schumann's eldest child, and the one who kept alive in her heart the most vivid picture of her father. She was her mother's chief teaching assistant at the latter's piano class in Frankfurt. According to the memoirs of Eugenie Schumann, published in 1925, Marie's support and assistance enabled Clara to live 'entirely for her profession, untroubled by the burdensome demands of everyday life, which were kept from her so as not to hinder her in the pursuit of her art'. Eugenie Schumann (1851-1938), the Schumanns' youngest daughter, also assisted her mother in teaching. Her memoirs contain vivid accounts of her parents and the family's relations with Brahms.
LITERATURE:Ute Bär, ' "Sie war die einzige der Schwestern, die ein lebendiges Bild des Vaters in ihrem Herzen bewahrte …". Zum Gedenken an den 80. Todestag von Marie Schumann', Die Tonkunst, vol. 4 (2009), pp.495ff.