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Which major work did Robert Schumann conduct for the first time in 1843?
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In 1843, Robert Schumann conducted the first performance of his most ambitious work at that time, the secular oratorio Das Paradies und die Peri (Paradise and the Peri). This performance marked his debut as a conductor.1