Not generally well known for his symphonic compositions, I'm listening to Schumann's 1st Symphony in B-flat "Spring" conducted by Leonard Bernstein and performed by the Wiener Philharmoniker. Schumann's symphonies, along with Mendelssohn's, sort of fill the gap between the romanticism of Beethoven and Schubert and the later romanticism of Brahms and Dvorak which which parallels the new leaps being made by Wagner, Bruckner and Mahler.