Donald Satz wrote: >The clear winner in a ten round decision is Schumann. How did that happen? Because you either forgot or camouflaged Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto, his incidental music to Midsummer Night's Dream, his *Elias* oratorio, and his overtures. Maybe by M's "one great concerto" you meant his Violin Concerto, rather than any of his concerto for piano(s). If so, I would argue that the violin concerto (in my view the perfect violin concerto the way *Carmen* is the perfect opera*) is sufficiently sublime to more than compensate for Schumann's arguable superiority in other media. I myself prefer both of Mendelssohn's Piano Concertos to Schumann's, but I like the latter sufficiently to understand that others might not share that view. Admittedly I've come tardily to an appreciation of Schumann. I used to consider his piano music narcotic but have revised my opinion after hearing some new performances, mainly Uchida. Walter Meyer