“All week long I sat at the piano, composing and writing and laughing and crying, all at once.” Robert Schumann wrote these words in March 1839 in a letter to his beloved Clara, and the work that gave her a glimpse into his creative process was published at the end of the year as a cycle entitled Humoreske. It is rarely played by pianists, and critics are divided in their opinions: some consider it a dead end in Schumann's oeuvre, while others regard it as an undeservedly neglected piece. What is certain is that it is extremely exciting music, like everything that came from Schumann's hands, so it is worth talking about it and, above all, listening to it. Gábor Csalog and Gergely Fazekas's dialogue will also draw on Brahms's works alongside Schumann's, to see how the two composers are connected beyond the figure of Clara, and how the simultaneous state of crying and laughing can be represented in music. Not only Schumann, but Brahms was also a great master of this.
The language of the discussion is Hungarian.

Further concerts in this series:
23 November 2025 6 PM – Gábor Csalog Sundays – Dialogues with (the) Music | Mahler and Schubert
25 January 2026 6 PM – Gábor Csalog Sundays – Dialogues with (the) Music | Chopin and Mendelssohn
17 May 2026 6 PM – Gábor Csalog Sundays – Dialogues with (the) Music | Kurtág and the Music History