Chopin's music seemed to be a guiding spirit in Schumann's journalism. Schumann made his debut with an article about the Variations, Op 2, while a review of Tarantella, Op 43, published in 1843, was ...

CHOPIN and Schumann, whose bicentenaries the classical music world celebrates this year, have long been linked as pioneers of Romanticism, in part because of the shared year of their births. Yet ...

In Schumann's "Fantasiestücke," Op. 73, Ma adopted a long-breathed approach that lent scope and vigor to the music's restless phrases.