Robert Schumann's Fantasiestücke, Op. 12, is a set of eight pieces for piano, written in 1837. The title was inspired by the 1814–15 collection of novellas, essays, treatises, letters, and writings about music, Fantasiestücke in Callots Manier (which also included the complete Kreisleriana, another source of inspiration for Schumann) by one of his favourite authors, E. T. A. Hoffmann. Schumann dedicated the pieces to Fräulein Anna Robena Laidlaw, an accomplished and attractive 18-year-old Scottish pianist with whom Schumann had become good friends.

Original Name Fantasiestücke
Date of composition 1837
First published 1838 – Leipzig: Breitkopf und Härtel
Dedicated to Miss Anna Robena Laidlaw
Type Fantasy (Fantasia)
Catalogue Op. 12
Instruments Piano
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Robert Schumann: Phantasiestücke, Op. 12