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Here's your Shmoop du jour, brought to you by Johannes Brahms, who is famous for his

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Lullaby. It was so good, his baby wasn't the only one who would fall asleep...

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Which famous musician did Schumann meet in 1853?

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By this point all these guys seem familiar. We kinda feel like we're in the midst of

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a giant, awkwardly warm classical music bear hug.

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All of these fellas are mentioned in the passage, but what we have to figure out is which one

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Schumann hung out with in 1853.

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If we don't remember exactly, we can do a super quick scan for the date, because dates

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stick out from all the words.

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If we do remember, then... that's totally unnecessary, and we can swiftly eliminate

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all these nonsense answers that are wasting our time.

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(C) and (D) are the most suspect.

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We remember the passage very clearly telling us that Schumann dug playing the music of

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Mozart and Beethoven when he was younger, but it doesn't say anything about him having met these idols.

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Both (C) and (D) have to go.

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Could choice (B) be right?

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Nope, besides having the best name ever, Ignatz Moscheles was also the guy who inspired Schumann

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when he was a kid--which Schuman was not in 1853. Choice (B) has got it all wrong.

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Answer (A) is the way to go.

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The passage tells us that Schumann went through the roof when he met Brahms in 1853, so we

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know (A) is the one.

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"Through the roof." That must've hurt.

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