ently successful in construction as
well. A piano concerto, Op. 7, dedicated to Spohr, is short and poorly
balanced, the first movement being a single solo leading into the
andante. The later works, especially the songs, show plainly the
influence of her husband's great genius. The list of her published
compositions is as follows:

Op. 1, Quartre Polonaises, piano.
Op. 2, Caprices en Forme de Valses, piano.
Op. 3, Romance Variee, piano.
Op. 4, Valses Romantiques, piano.
Op. 5, Four Pieces Caracteristiques, piano.
Op. 6, Soirees Musicales, 6 pieces, piano.
Op. 7, Piano Concerto in A minor.
Op. 8, Variations de Concert (Pirate de Bellini), piano.
Op. 9, Souvenir de Vienne, Impromptu, piano.
Op. 10, Scherzo for piano.
Op. 11, Three Romances, piano.
Op. 12, Three Songs from Rueckert's "Liebesfruehling."
Op. 13, Six Songs.
Op. 14, Second Scherzo, piano.
Op. 15, Four Pieces Fugitives, piano.
Op. 16, Three Preludes and Fugues, piano.
Op. 17, Trio, G minor, for piano, violin, and 'cello.
Op. 18 and 19 did not appear.
Op. 20, Piano variations on a theme of Robert Schumann.
Op. 21, Three Romances, piano.
Op. 22, Three Romances, piano and violin.
Op. 23, Six Songs from Rollet's "Jucunde."

Without opus number, Cadenzas to Beethoven's concertos, Op. 37 and 58;
Song, "Liebeszauber," Geibel; Andante and Allegro for piano; Song, "Am
Strand;" and a march in E flat, composed in 1879 for a golden wedding.

Clara Schumann edited Breitkopf and Haertel's edition of her husband's
works, and issued a volume of his early letters.

CHAPTER V.

OTHER MUSICAL ROMANCES

Although some of the great composers remained unmarried, many of them
were influenced by women, and the effect is frequently visible in their
compositions. Dedications of musical works to women are apparently a
matter of little moment, but often they are surface indications of some
deep feeling underneath, which is expressed in the music. Especially
will this be found true in Beethoven's case, but it applies also to
Schubert and other composers.

If George Frederick Handel never married, it was certainly not from lack
of an opportunity to do so. In 1703, while still in his teens, he
journeyed with his friend Mattheson, who was in search of a post as
organist, from Hamburg to Luebeck. The place was occupied by the renowned
Buxtehude, who was so advanced in age that he was forced to look for a
successor. The two young aspirants tried the organs and clavicemba