The sociable side of nineteenth-century musical life is not acknowledged as often as it should be.
– Laura Tunbridge discusses the interconnected, complicated and often contradictory myths and realities that link Chopin, Schumann and Brahms; the TLS's music editor Lucy Dallas takes us through a selection of other pieces on music in this week's issue, including new histories of the blues and the poetic pop of Kate Bush and the Pet Shop Boys; .
Jenni Quilter this week examines the lives of five female Abstract Expressionists.
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