DO YOU LIKE BRAHMS? Brahms was engaged, but not to Clara Schumann.

Brahms fell in love with another woman besides Clara Schumann. But he broke it off, and Clara felt sorry for her.
Brahms String Sextet No. 2, recording from IMSLP
imslp.org/wiki/String_Sextet_...)
Sources for this information:
Clara Schumann: The Artist and the Woman (Reich)
Clara Schumann: An Artist's Life, Based on Diaries and Letters (Litzmann)
Johannes Brahms: A Biography (Swafford)
The Letters of Clara Schumann and Johannes Brahms 1853-1896 (Litzmann)
The Complete Correspondence of Clara and Robert Schumann (Crawford/Fritsch)
Schumann: The Face and the Masks (Chernaik)

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I mean, that photo you’re using...I’d be in love with him too

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I knoooow. It's my fav.