Schumann's "Davidsbündlertänze"

In 1850 Schumann succeeded Ferdinand Hiller as musical director at Düsseldorf, but he was a poor conductor and quickly aroused the opposition of the musicians. According to Harold C. Schonberg (The Great Conductors) "The great composer was impossible on the platform . . . There is something heartrending about poor Schumann's epochal inefficiency as a conductor." His contract was eventually terminated.

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