Robert Schumann: Partituras medio

'Do you not know Jean Paul, our great writer? I have learnt more counterpoint from him than from my music teacher'. His 'Vorschule der Ästhetik' with its extensive treatment of humour probably occasio...

It was in February 1854, a few weeks before Robert Schumann's admission to the psychiatric hospital in Endenich, that he wrote his variations on a theme in E-flat major. Because of the extraordinary,...

Schumann kept coming back to variation form. He often wrote his own variations in contrast to those on popular (operatic) themes, with which piano virtuosi of the time flooded the market. The 'Impromp...

The Novelettes arose at roughly the same time as the Kinderszenen and share the same largely untroubled mood. Writing to Clara Wieck, Schumann could exclaim 'I've written such a frightful amount of mu...

Following Schumann's move to the Rhine, where he had become the musical director of the Düsseldorf Music Society, times became hard for him. Despite several initial successes, he increasingly encounte...

As he was interested in politics, Schumann took an active interest in the democratically motivated unrest in spring 1848. The following year he directly witnessed the May uprising in Dresden, after wh...

To commemorate the 200th anniversary of Robert Schumann's birth, an ambitious project has been realized in 2010: For the first time since Clara Schumann's Complete Edition of 1879-93, all of the works...

To commemorate the 200th anniversary of Robert Schumann's birth, an ambitious project has been realized in 2010: For the first time since Clara Schumann's Complete Edition of 1879-93, all of the works...

To commemorate the 200th anniversary of Robert Schumann's birth, an ambitious project has been realized in 2010: For the first time since Clara Schumann's Complete Edition of 1879-93, all of the works...

Las tres Romanzas op. 28 de Robert Schumann representan un punto culminante en la música romántica para piano. Reflejan las amplias facetas de todo lo que podía entenderse por el término "romance" en...

Immerse yourself in the enchanting sound world of Romanticism with "Winter Time No. 2" (from the beloved Album for the Young Op. 68 No. 39). This evocative piece masterfully captures the melancholic b...

Schumann's second violin sonata was written in October/November 1851, only a few weeks after the first work for this combination of instruments (HN 428). The highly virtuosic sonata, especially in the...

Las sonatas para violín de Schumann fueron recibidas con entusiasmo poco después de su estreno. Los contemporáneos llegaron a considerar la 2ª sonata como "la más grande después de la de Beethoven en...

published within the Signature Series a series of authoritative performing editions of standard keyboard works prepared from original sources by leading scholars- including informative introductions a...

Numerous selections from Schumann's Album for the Young have long been favorites of intermediate students, and few collections fail to include the 'Soldier's March,' the 'Happy Farmer' or the 'Wild Ho...

In the 19th century, this cycle of variations counted among the most famous piano works of Schumann and was part of the standard repertoire for two pianos. Created in 1843, this work was played by Cla...

Encouraged by the success of his 'Papillons', Schumann composed his 'Intermezzi' op. 4, also known as 'longer Papillons', in 1832. Despite the at times improvisatory style, Schumann worked very carefu...

Our series of revised Schumann editions continues with this delicately wrought set of variations. 'Opus 18 and 19 are frail things for ladies': thus, with a wink of the eye, Schumann alluded to his wi...

In response to failures, Schumann once again turned more to composing during his time in Düsseldorf. He wrote many new works - also ones for the piano for which he had only written a few pieces after...

To commemorate the 200th anniversary of Robert Schumann's birth, an ambitious project has been realized in 2010: For the first time since Clara Schumann's Complete Edition of 1879-93, all of the works...

Las Kinderszenen, compuestas en la primavera de 1838, figuran entre las obras más conocidas y populares de la literatura pianística. La nº 7 en particular, la Träumerei, inició una marcha triunfal sin...

In the summer of 1852, Vier Stücke ['Four Pieces'] for viola and piano by Robert Schumann were published under the title Märchenbilder ['Fairy-Tale Pictures'] by the Kassel publishing house Luckhardt,...

Robert Schumann escribió sus Fantasiestücke op. 73 para clarinete y piano en dos días de febrero de 1849, y la primera interpretación por Clara Schumann y el clarinetista de Dresde Johann Gottlieb Kot...

The so-called F. A. E. Sonata is an extraordinary collective work with an equally unusual title and concept. In late October 1853, Robert Schumann, Albert Dietrich and Johannes Brahms presented it as...