Already in his youth, Robert Schumann experienced sudden changing emotions,
" now shouting in triumph, now sunk in despair," surrendered to the ups and downs between euphoria and depression.
He is withdrawn and taciturn, introverted and shy.

Yet in music, just as in the written word - Robert Schumann was doubly gifted in both music and literature - he was able to communicte fluently    
to his environment.

Composing became therapeutic for him, by transforming psychological activity
and inner voices into music. Music that in its complex daring, strong emotionality, its richness of melody and sounds, practically effervesces from the unconscious.

                                                                                                            Thomas Albertus Irnberger
                                                                                                            translated by Albert Frantz