Papillons

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Papillons, opus 2, is a piano piece written in 1831 by Robert Schumann. Meaning 'butterflies,' Papillons begins with a 6 measure introduction before launching into a variety of dance-like movements. Each dance movement is unrelated to the preceding ones, until the finale, which is tonally similar to the introduction. Papillons is meant to represent a masque ball, which each movement giving the impression of a different character at that ball. The genre is character piece/suite. It was written in Germany during the romantic period.

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