"Schumann‘s piano music is conceived more instrumentally, not necessarily for piano. This is true of Beethoven and Bra…"

"Schumann is the most representative musical figure of central European Romanticism as much because of his limitations…"

"Schumann’s writing for the piano is very orchestral, and sometimes does not lie so easily under the hands. But it is …"

"[A]lmost every simple piece of Schumann’s has a hidden secret (with few exceptions, for example the Arabesque). Such …"

"The talent works, the genius creates."

"Perhaps genius alone understands genius fully. (Sometimes translated as: Perhaps only genius fully understands genius)"

"To send light into the depths of the human heart -- this is the artist's calling!"

"Sometimes I am so full of music, and so overflowing with melody, that I find it simply impossible to write down anyth…"

"If we were all determined to play the first violin we should never have an ensemble. therefore, respect every musicia…"

"Schumann’s piano settings mostly evolve around the middle range of the piano keyboard, and lastly also for that reaso…"