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: I am interested in the relationship between the psychiatric illness of : Robert Schumann and his late works. : The following questions arise: : 1) what is the nature of his illness (schizophrenia? neurosyphilis?) and in : which year of his life the first symptoms get through? : 2) are there signs in his late works of a declining mastership? : 3) if the answer to question # 2) is affirmative, is this because of his : illness? Is a person who is suffering from schizophrenia or neurosyphilis be : able to compose music at all? : 4) is the answer to question # 2) affirmative because he went ill? In other : words, are we willing to hear decay because we know the tragic outcome of : his life? : Who wants to comment? : henri sentis

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