Listeners may find in Schubert’s music a sense of unrequited longing that the Italian scholar Angela Carone called a “not yet” quality; this sense of “becoming” resounds throughout Schubert’s 3 Klavierstücke. The six miniatures that eventually became known as Moments Musicaux suggest a range of moods and character sketches which Mendelsohn referred to as “songs without words,” anticipating his own.