Schumann at the Piano - 17 Well-known Original PiecesSchumann was a poet at the piano, and the best known of his piano pieces bear programmatic titles such as Trumerei (Reverie), Von fremden Lndern und Menschen (Of foreign lands and people) or Vogel als Prophet (The bird as prophet). His whole oeuvre exudes a sense of poetic freedom, making him the Romantic composer par excellence. Whether in his easiest pieces for children from his Album for the Young or in the more demanding Papillons, we can hear