Piano Quintet (Schumann) to make revisions to the inner movements, including the addition of a second trio to the third movement. Clara Schumann did play the piano part at the first public performance of the piano quintet on 8 January 1843, at the Leipzig Gewandhaus. Clara pronounced the work "splendid, full of vigor and freshness." She often performed the work throughout her life. On one occasion, however, Robert Schumann asked a male pianist to replace Clara in a performance of the quintet, remarking that "a man understands that better." Schumann's piano quintet is scored for piano and string quartet (two violins, viola, and
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