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ACT Reading 2.9 Humanities Passage. Which famous musician did Schumann meet in 1853?
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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?
- 00:53
By this point all these guys seem familiar. We kinda feel like we're in the midst of
- 00:57
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
- 01:13
stick out from all the words.
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If we do remember, then... that's totally unnecessary, and we can swiftly eliminate
- 01:19
all these nonsense answers that are wasting our time.
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(C) and (D) are the most suspect.
- 01:24
We remember the passage very clearly telling us that Schumann dug playing the music of
- 01:28
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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