An injury to his right hand forced him to give up his performing career, but did not prevent him from composing piano pieces like Scenes from Childhood and Carnaval.
Joseph Joachim feared that this man's Violin Concerto was a product of his madness, and a melody from that piece was adapted in a piano duet by Brahms. A Thomas Moore novel inspired his oratorio Das Paradies und die Peri, and characters like the Count of Brabante appear in his lone opera, Genoveva. His Cello and Piano concertos are both in A minor, and his solo pieces for the piano include Kreisleriana and the Night Suite. An injury to his right hand forced him to give up his performing career, but did not prevent him from composing piano pieces like Scenes from Childhood and Carnaval. FTP, name this German Romantic composer of the Spring Symphony and the Rhenish Symphony.
Joseph Joachim feared that this man's Violin Concerto was a product of his madness, and a melody from that piece was adapted in a piano duet by Brahms.
Robert {Schumann}