History of Music

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. Schumann and Mendelssohn are entitled to take the lead as composers of classical pianoforte music since Beethoven. Schumann employed his piano as a means Of expressing his most intense feeling, and we find that the first ten years of his career as a composer (1829 - 1839) were entirely devoted to pianoforte compositions. The results are his Papillons, Intermezzi.