FANTASY PIECES FOR CLARINET & PIANO OP 7 Edited by Michael Kube based on the sources. Robert Schumann wrote his Fantasy Pieces for clarinet and piano in the course of two days in February 1849. Only a few days later they were premiered by Clara Schumann and the Dresden clarinetist Johann Gottlieb Kotte. Initially choosing the title Soire Pieces for his works, Schumann finally decided to have them published as Fantasy Pieces, thereby emphasizing their poetical aspects. These connotations are also at the centre of clarinetist Elisabeth Eichenbergs notes on interpretation with special reference to the contemporary aesthetics of the clarinet sound. The