Folks at the Choralist suggested I query you regarding an answer to my
question.  Or perhaps you can direct me to the appropriate list.

I belong to a Trio - piano, clarinet, viola.  We are performing Robert
Schumann's Maerchenerzaehlungen (Fairy Tales), op. 132.

1.  We would like to identify the fairy tale(s) after which he composed
these 4 movements.

2.  Specifically the last movement - we are discussing the thrust -
regal versus marchial, what texture is really present.  It seems very
Beethovenesque in character.

3.  After consulting Schumann Calssical Music Pages on the web, I discover
that the Maerchenerzaehlungen were catalogued as being written for piano,
clarinet, viola and alto.  We are using a Breitkopf edition and it gives no
allusion to a vocalist.  Still no hints as to which fairy tales, etc.  They
were written just 3 years before Schumann died.

We would appreciate any and all advise and comments on the
music/phrasing/message within.  Thank you

Ruth Becker
The Heidelberg Trio
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