Robert Schumann
Three Romances
Op. 28

About Robert Schumann's Three Romances

Schumann himself was quite fond of the Romances, three contrasting character pieces dating from the late 1830s, his perhaps most productive period in terms of keyboard music.
Even after Schumann’s own prospects as a concert pianist were ruined by permanent damage to his right hand, his affinity for the piano continued, not least because of his relationship with Clara Wieck, the extraordinary pianist who was to become Schumann’s wife in 1840 after his long struggle with her objecting father.