Robert Schumann (1810-1856) was a German composer of the Romantic era. The Robert Schumann House in Zwickau and the Schumann House in Bonn, the Robert Schumann Prize, the International Robert Schumann Competition for Piano and Singing, as well as the Robert Schumann University in Düsseldorf bear his name. In addition to studying piano (with Friedrich Wieck, the father of his later wife) and music theory, he pursued his own studies based on Johann Sebastian Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier. Although a finger injury thwarted his career as a virtuoso, he produced several early compositions. For many years, he published only works for piano. In his romantic-idealistic artistry, Schumann was sincere and determined; however, he was not very successful as a teacher and conductor due to his increasingly introspective nature, and initially, he was hardly known as a composer. In the present volume from 1865, he describes.