The fact that Ouverture, Scherzo und Finale is hardly known may be due to the dif&#64257, culty of categorizing it. In letters and notes, one can occasionally &#64257,nd the designation 'suite', 'symphoniette' and even 'symphony' although the work was not included by Schumann in the canon of his four symphonies. It does not even appear in the 'Cycle of Overtures' which he created in the 1850s. Originally, Schumann had composed the Ouverture as an independent orchestral work, adding the other two parts later. The &#64257,nal completion took twelve years altogether, and during that time, many passages were rejected or revised.