Fantasiestücke, Op. 12
Robert Schumann's ''Fantasiestücke'', Opus number, Op. 12, is a set of eight pieces for piano, written in 1837 in music, 1837. The title was inspired by the 1814–15 collection of novellas, essays, treatises, letters, and writings about music, ''Fantasiestücke in Callots Manier'' (which also included the complete ''Kreisleriana'', another source of inspiration for Schumann) by one of his favourite authors, E. T. A. Hoffmann. Schumann dedicated the pieces to Fräulein Anna Robena Laidlaw, an accomplished 18-year-old Scottish pianist with whom Schumann had become good friends.J. C. Hadden; rev. Anne Pimlott Baker"Laidlaw , Anna Robena Keddy (1819–1901)" ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press, 2004; online ed., May 2008, accessed 28 January 2015 Schumann composed the pieces with the characters Florestan and Eusebius in mind, representing the duality of his personality. Eusebius depicts the dreamer in Schumann while Florestan represents his passiona ...
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