The following is an excerpt from Robert Schumann's Carnaval. Frédéric Chopin is reported to have said that Carnaval was not music at all. I wonder what motivated Schumann to write it?
The uncompromisingly lofty and elaborate pianistic demands of Schumann's keyboard works and their widely varied range of dynamic nuances and densely textured web of primary and secondary voices confounded audiences at their initial performances.
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