The “Notturno”, the first movement of Trio, originates from ‘E flat’, the note which made ‘Schumann in Endenich…’ hear the music of heaven. The famous ‘Last Thought’, however, is not quoted. Instead, the image of Schumann‘s melody is evoked in the listener‘s mind by the help of an augmented triad, stretched to breaking point, which is inverted and transposed again and again. Even the following movements do not quote directly but present only a notion. Accordingly, Volker David Kirchn...