 The year now is 1841. Robert Schumann began his very first symphony. In a fever of creativity, he sketched the whole work in four days and orchestrated it just a few weeks later. He tended to write that way. We're going to listen to this symphony number one, the so-called Spring Symphony. And by the way, that subtitle given to it by Schumann himself. Originally, he gave each movement a title. Spring's Awakening, Evening, Merry Playmates, and Spring's Farewell.