Tag: Sonata No. 2 in G-sharp minor Op. 19 “Fantasy”

  • PROGRAM NOTES: BENJAMIN GROSVENOR

    PROGRAM NOTES: BENJAMIN GROSVENOR

    Robert Schumann Arabesque, Op. 18 In the autumn of 1838 Robert Schumann made a career decision. He would move from his native Leipzig to Vienna to find a publisher and a sympathetic public for his piano compositions. The public he hoped to attract in his year in the Austrian capital was a public of the…