By MYRA Hess
AMONG Schumann’s best Piano
A music is his collection of ' Fantastic ' or ' Fanciful Pieces.' These have titles ranging from, for instance, the Third, which is simply called Why ? to the Sixth, .1 Fable, or the Last, The End of the Story. Papillons is a set of twelve pieces which were written at various times up to 1831 (when he was twenty-one). They were inspired by his reading a book of Jean Paul Richter.