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

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

"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 …"

"In order to compose, all you need to do is remember a tune that nobody else has thought of."

"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…"

"The talent works, the genius creates."

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

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