Musicology Annotation << Back Correspondence of Schumann and Henselt (The experience of musical graphological research) Skorbyashchenskaya Olga A. The correspondence between Robert Schumann and Adolf Henselt is a clear indication of the creative dialogue between two fellow composers living in the era of German romanticism. Using the example of two letters by Robert Schumann, stored in the Manuscript Department of the NLR of St. Petersburg, the author makes an attempt, for the first time in modern musicology, to create a kind of "graphological portrait" of the great German romantics and concludes that Schuman’s personality is deeply peculiar and also analyzes the role of Schumann in the creative development of Adolf Henselt. Keywords: Robert Schumann, Adolf von Henselt, correspondence, handwriting, composer’s personality, German romanticism. DOI: 10.25791/musicology.07.2019.719 Contacts: - Pp. 43-49.