Robert Schumann’s Carnaval is much more than a set of character pieces and musical portraits, it is in fact also a work of ingenious orthographies. Schumann realized that the name of his fiancée's hometown, ‚Asch’, could betranslated into notes according to the German reckoning of pitch names: ‚A’ became A natural, ‚S’ (Es) E flat, ‚C’ C natural, and ‚H’ B natural. Moreover, when the letters are rearranged to S-C-H-A, they became symbolic of his ownname ‚SCHumAnn’. Each of the pieces in <