Robert Schumann
Dichterliebe, piano cycles — Romantic dreamer
The most literary of the Romantics. His piano cycles are tone-poems of the imagination, and Dichterliebe is the Romantic Lied's masterpiece alongside Winterreise.
Key works
- Dichterliebe1840— Heine's poems set with heartbreaking irony
- Piano Concerto in A minor1845— Romantic concerto as intimate confession