Robert Schumann's Piano Quintet was composed for his wife, Clara, who was an excellent pianist and composer. Felix Mendelssohn played the piano part privately in one of the salons of the time, but it was Clara Schumann who publicly premiered the piano quintet in Leipzig in 1843; and that at a time when it was not appropriate for female musicians to perform in public. But Clara Schumann was an exception, and the artistic milieu a mixture of something conservative and progressive. A piano quintet in itself was progressive, because there were not many before Robert Schumann who had combined the piano with a string quartet. Actually, however, he probably got the idea from Mozart himself, when he had edited his own versions of his piano concertos into quintet format, so that they could be performed under more intimate circumstances.

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