If, while at the piano, you attempt to form little melodies, that is very well; but if they come into your mind of themselves, when you are not practising, you may be still more pleased; for the internal organ of music is then roused in you. The fingers must do what the head desires; not the contrary.

) Brahms amazed Clara and Robert with his music stayed with them for several weeks and became a close family friend. After this his compositions were not confined to any one form during any particular period. Compositions
List of compositions by Robert Schumann
Category:Compositions by Robert Schumann


Fictional portrayals
Song of Love (1947) is an MGM film starring Paul Henreid as Schumann Katharine Hepburn as Clara Wieck Robert Walker as Johannes Brahms and Henry Daniell as Franz Liszt.

Schumann left the study of law to return to music intending to pursue a career as a virtuoso pianist. Had they waited one day they would have no longer needed her father's consent which had been the subject of a long and acrimonious legal battle which found in favor of Clara and Robert. For the last two years of his life after an attempted suicide Schumann was confined to a mental institution at his own request.