Schumann - Piano Quartet in E flat Op 47

Last week I offered the slow movement from Schumann's Piano Quartet in E flat Op 47. Peter rightly diagnosed the composer from the rather esoteric Düsseldorf clue - but he knows a lot about music and I suspect he was too modest to identify the piece exactly. Schumann was closely connected with the town towards the end of his life, and famously attempted suicide, or a kind of romantic gesture, by throwing himself off a bridge into the Rhine close to where the Gehry buildings are now. If he tried it today he would probably kill himself by hitting a barge.

I was wrong to classify this piece of music as a lollipop of course - the whole work is a beautifully crafted piece of chamber music, and the theme from the slow movement just happens to be irritatingly unforgettable.

I quite like the idea of presenting a piece of music every week. It's fun trying to think of something interesting, with something to talk about apart from the music. The word lollipop is getting dropped.

This week we have a piece of piano music which is well known, although I haven't heard it publicly or on the radio for a while. People who don't know it might nonetheless be confident to have a guess at the composer. People who do know it can maybe keep quiet

Music for Sunday 15th February

I can't think of a pictorial clue, but to keep Nathalie happy here is an unrelated photo. This is the Dolder Grand in Zurich, recently refurbished. I'll be talking about it in a future post.