Schumann Symphony No. 2 in C major Op. 61

Study Score, edited by Joachim Draheim

What Beethoven wanted and achieved in the works of his last period of creativity works which open up a distant future to music Schumann was the first artist after him to succeed in imparting the corresponding expression to it.
(Neue Zeitschrift für Musik, 1849, on Robert Schumanns Second Symphony)