The Fantasy Pieces were written in the spring and summer of 1837 in Leipzig. The unbroken popularity of this work, and particularly of certain pieces like Des Abend s , Aufschwung , In der Nacht and Traumes Wirren can be explained to a certain extent by the fact that Schumann succeeded here for the first time in writing more broadly laid-out and formally distinct character pieces of rather limited technical difficulty. The present edition is based on the music text of the Gesamtausgabe of Robert...