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Recommend of the piece to listen to while reading. Explain how other movements in Opus 12 connect to this one. Find more details on the myth of Hero and Leander itself.

In Robert Schumann's piano cycle Fantasiestücke, Op. 12 , the fifth movement, ("In the Night"), is inspired by the ancient Greek myth of Hero and Leander . Schumann himself later realized the music perfectly mirrored this tragic story of longing and the relentless sea. The Story of Hero and Leander in_der_nacht

: Every night, Leander would swim across the treacherous Hellespont to be with Hero. To guide his path through the dark, turbulent waters, Hero would light a torch at the top of her tower. Recommend of the piece to listen to while reading

: When morning came and Hero saw Leander’s lifeless body washed up on the shore, she was overcome with grief and threw herself from her tower into the sea to be with him in death. In Robert Schumann's piano cycle Fantasiestücke, Op

Hero was a beautiful priestess of Aphrodite who lived in a tower in Sestos, on the European side of the Hellespont. Leander, a young man from Abydos on the opposite Asian shore, fell deeply in love with her.