Question

Schumann’s miniature character pieces can be described as

Answer 1

Each of the characters  bear a title of a person or event at an imaginary masked ball

Answer 2

Schumann’s miniature character pieces can be described as a cycle of character pieces for piano.

In Carnival, which is an example of autobiographical music of the Romantic era, he portrayed two different sides of his own personality - Eusebius and Florestan. Symbolism and lots of chromaticism are characteristics of Shumann's miniature.