Robert Schumann's 10 Impromptus on a Theme by Clara Wieck, Op. 5 (1833) is a set of variations on a theme by the 13-year old Clara Wieck, who eventually became Schumann's wife. Though modeled after Beethoven's "Eroica" Variations, Op. 35 (1802), the 10 Impromptus are highly original and inspired in execution. Schumann's model is obvious at the beginning, where, as in Beethoven's set, the work begins with a bass line alone; true melodic material appears only as the variations themselves commence. In further emulation of the Beethoven work, Schumann ends the variations with a fugue, flanking it with a gigue in a nod to the Baroque dance suite. - AllMusic
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