A secret engagement' a composer as prospective father'in'law and several rival publishing houses ''' it was against this backdrop that the work was composed' His youthful and passionate love for Ernestine von Fricken was short'lived' but it occasioned Schumann in 1837 to write the '''intensely emotional variations''' on a theme of her father'''s' which were eventually to become the '''Orchestral etudes'

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