Anyone dealt with the Schumann toccata before?

[diomedes]

Has anyone done serious work on the Schumann Toaccata, and is it as bad as it looks, cause on paper it's rather cruel looking. Obviously everyone is different and has better facility in some technical parts, but i might as well ask. The farthest i went into cruel double note technique was Scriabin op.8/10 and ondine, neither were too bad at all.

[symphonicdance]

My hands aren't very big, thence not feeling too comfortable when working on this.

[cuberdrift]

IIRC, wasn't this toccata actually based on an older one by Clementi?

[chrisbutch]

IIRC, wasn't this toccata actually based on an older one by Clementi?

It was based on an earlier piece by Schumann himself, conceived as no more than a technical exercise. I used to think that its origin as an exercise explained the Toccata's lack of volume, speed and other interpretative markings, usually plentiful in Schumann. However, now that the Exercise has been published in the recent Henle complete edition, it paradoxically turns out to have more such indications than the Toccata.