In 1834, Schumann becomes engaged to Ernestine von Friecken, originating in Asch small town in Bohemian.

Their connection although short, gave the opportunity to Schumann to compose for its been engaged, a collection carried out starting from the letters of name ASCH, according to the Germanic correspondence of the letters and the sounds.

        Carnival is one of the most varied most brilliant works and, that Schumann bequeathed to the pianists.
Liszt was the first to carry out it in public.

        If “Butterflies” found its source in the imaginary one of Jean-Paul, in the opus the 9 characters quite real, and are hardly masked.

        When one knows the universe of Schumann, one recognizes without sorrow Chopin and Liszt, like Clara and Ernestine.
Schumann him even, is represented under the features of Eusebius and of Florestan, whose divergences are sometimes overcome by Maître Raro (Wieck).

All these beautiful people take share with the carnival.

        The preamble and final walk, frame eighteen miniatures, which are connected and call with the dance.
In final walk, Schumann uses an old German melody XXII century, heavily stressed symbolizing, the conservatism and the middle-class men of Article.

        Work is crowned in the joy, by a fireworks and calls of brass band already heard in “butterflies” announcing the victory of the” companions of David " over the Philistines, symbol of stupidity and the artistic archaism.

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