Master Raro

Master Raro was a notable character that appeared in many of Robert Schumann's character pieces for solo piano. Raro, was the personality that balanced the two contrasting natures of Florestan (aggressive, enthusiastic) and Eusibius (passive, dreamy.) Master Raro was also the primary arbiter of the many pseudonyms under which Robert Schumann took guise in his critical writings within Die Neue Zeitschrift für Musik, the journal through which he evaluated the music world. Raro appears to bring logic and reason into a complex mixture of contrasting views of the Davidsbündler and to relieve the tensions that invariably erupt when differing points of view clash. He is the primary indicator of Schumann's mastery of this peculiar means to write and criticize in all fairness to many, many different points of view.

References

• Gordon, Stewart. (1996) A history of Keyboard Literature: Music for the Piano and Its Forerunners. Wadsworth Group/Thompson Learning ISBN 978-0-534-25197-0