Schumann’s father was a Saxon bookseller and publisher, well-to-do and cultured. Robert was his fifth child and, though he and his wife were not musical, they encouraged their son’s musical talents ...

In his early twenties, he’d lived as the protégé of Robert and Clara Schumann. The concerto started ... “Just a few little piano pieces” was how he described it to one friend: in fact ...

This was the journalistic debut of 21-year-old Robert Schumann, with a typo in the first initial. The second of the two statements appeared five years later, in Schumann's review of the piano ...