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Kissin’s performance of Robert Schumann??€™s Sonata No. 1 in F-sharp minor was much more convincing. The work was written during the white-heat inspiration of Schumann??€™s tumultuous courtship of the brilliant pianist, Clara Wieck, whom he would later marry. While the work does not quite reach the desperation and pathos of other Clara-obsessed compositions (such as the Fantasy in C Major), it shares many of the features of other Schumann compositions from the same time period, namely capriciousness and extremity of emotions (from the heroic Eusebius to the introspective...