4th Philharmonic Concert / Borderline Experience

"For the past few days, I've been pounding and trumpeting a lot inside me; I don't know what will come of it ," wrote Robert Schumann to his friend Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, announcing the first ideas for his new Symphony in C major. With the completion of the work, the Saxon Romantic composer had simultaneously overcome a severe depressive phase and was soon able to devote himself to his operatic project Genoveva . However, only the overture ...