Because of its great variety and highly virtuosic demands, it is enjoyed both by audiences and performers alike.
Clara Schumann claimed to be "endlessly looking forward to the second sonata", but nevertheless Robert revised it several times.
At Clara Schumann's request, the original finale, marked Presto passionato was replaced with a less difficult movement in 1838.
[3][1] Clara considered it “not too incomprehensible,” though she admitted that she would “play it if necessary, but the masses, the public, and even the connoisseurs for whom one is really writing, don’t understand it.”[4] The Andantino of the sonata is based on Schumann's early song "Im Herbste"; Jensen describes the first movement as having "a concern with motivic structure".
[1] It is dedicated to Schumann's friend the pianist Henriette Voigt and was published in September 1839.