For The Beginning Pianist-This beginner's piano book spotlights the music of one of the Romantic movement's most influential composers Robert Schumann. Its easy-to-play renditions of Schumann's beloved works progressively increase in difficulty and are accessible to novices of all ages.Contents include selections from Forest Scenes Scenes from Childhood Album for the Young and Carnaval a collection of short pieces representing revelers at a masked ball. Selections include 'Traumerei ' 'Happy Farmer ' 'Papillons ' and other melodies for solo piano.Dover Original.

von Joseph Freiherrn von Eichendorff-Original edition for medium voice.Bilingual Foreword (Ger/Eng) and Critical Commentary (Ger).The song texts are printed separately and include English translations taken from Richard Stokesâ?? publication The Book of Lieder.Schumannâ??s Liederkreis after poems by Joseph von Eichendorff comprises settings of twelve texts with the common motif of being far from home. This new edition presents the work in its definitive form published in the second edition of 1850 while taking into account Schumannâ??s autograph manuscript and other relevant sources. The detailed Foreword brings out the special nature of this cycle. Alternativereadings from the autograph offer valuable suggestions for a nuanced performance.Already published:Robert SchumannDichterliebe Op.48 BA 7851Liederkreis by Heinrich Heine Op.24 BA 7852Frauenliebe und Leben Op.42 BA 7854

Original Version. Schumann?s Cello Concerto Rediscovered In her first Urtext edition for Edition Peters, internationally renowned cellist Josephine Knight reveals Robert Schumann?s original version of his Cello Concerto in A minor Op. 129 ? a piece he actually called a ?Concertstück? ? removing generations of inauthentic editorial interventions. This is the only available modern scholarly edition of the work as Schumann originally conceived it, and restores the text from October 1850, based on the composer?s manuscript held in the Biblioteka Jagiello?ska in Kraków. This Full Score matches the separately available edition for Cello and Piano (EP 73488). Matching orchestral material is also available from the publisher. Only modern Urtext edition based on Schumann?s original 1850 manuscript Many new corrections and clarifications, especially to the cello part Scholarly preface detailing history of the work and this edition by editor Josephine Knight, Piatti Professor of Cello at the Royal Academy of Music London Cello Part contains Josephine Knight's fingering and bowing suggestions Critical Commentary Cello and piano edition available separately from Edition Peters: orchestral parts available for rental Recording of the Concertstück featuring Josephine Knight available from Dutton Robert Schumann?s tragic last years have mired many of his greatest works in unnecessary doubt. The story of the suppression of his Violin Concerto by well-meaning friends is relatively well-known. Few, however, know that the version of the Cello Concerto that is routinely heard today is so far from Schumann?s original conception of the work ? not only in details of phrasing and articulation, but also featuring a different ending with a bold final flourish from the cello. Composed in a burst of inspiration in two weeks in October 1850 shortly after he and Clara had moved to Düsseldorf, Schumann (who in 1850 was still in good health) never heard the piece performed. In an effort to promote a performance of the work, he gave the score to the cellist Robert Emil Bockmühl. Bockmühl made revisions that Schumann resisted, and the hoped-for performance never happened. Schumann?s health failed and he died aged just 46 in 1856. The Concerto, in an already substantially revised form, was premiered in 1860 but it was not given significant recognition until it was championed by Pablo Casals in the 20th century by which time (and since) the text for the work had accreted additions and alterations from generations of soloists. Now Josephine Knight, Piatti Professor of Cello at the Royal Academy of Music, London has returned to the original 1850 manuscript of the work, which is in the Biblioteka Jagiello?ska in Kraków, to reveal Schumann?s original thoughts for the first time in a modern Urtext edition. The edition reflects Schumann?s original conception of the work as a Concertstück and restores Schumann?s musical text, free of posthumous interventions. ?My ultimate wish,? says the editor, ?is to give performers both access to, and confidence that they are playing from, an edition which is a true representation of the piece in its original form, no matter how much more difficult this might be. I found that incorporating the changes enabled the piece to take on a completely different character ? one that is lighter and happier, even ?cheerful?, as Schumann himself described the work.'

In Vol. 2 of the Violin Sonatas by Robert Schumann the Wiener Urtext Edition presents the F.A.E. sonata jointly composed by Schumann Brahms and Albert Dietrich as well as the edited version with the movements of Brahms and Dietrich being replaced as third Violin sonata of Robert Schumann. The present edition is based on the edition published in 2002 in the New Schumann Complete Edition and thus on the latest musicological findings. In the case of the F.A.E. sonata this is mainly a matter of slight changes in the fields of dynamics and articulation. In the case of Schumann's third Violin sonata the present edition differs moresignificantly from the first edition published in 1956 and the slightly revised new edition of 1988. The order of the middle movements the accuracy of which could not be clearly determined up to now has been changed compared to the earlier editions because of newly found documents. In addition the repetition of the first section of the middle part notated in the first edition before the last 13 bars yet not intended by Schumann has been omitted. The repetition demanded by the composer however of the first eight bars before the beginning of the coda which is missing in hitherto publications has been added. Moreover in contrast to the first edition the new edition contains a variant for bar 100 in the first movement which was not written out in full by Schumann.

Song Cycle-1840 was Schumann?s famous ?year of song? that brought forth over 100 lieder. They included Myrthen op. 25 which he dedicated ?to his dear bride? Clara Wieck-Schumann. Besides famous songs such as ?Widmung? ?Lotosblume? and ?Nussbaum? to texts by German poets the collection also saw Schumann venture further afield whether to the Scottish Highlands with settings of Robert Burns or to Italy for the ?Venetian Songs? of Thomas Moore. Schumann specialist Kazuko Ozawa has examined the first edition of 1840 and all the manuscript sources. Among the dedicatory autograph copies she has also discovered interestingearly versions of individual songs that are here published in an appendix. Our Urtext edition is rounded off with an extensive history of how Myrthen was composed. This volume is a superlative addition to G. Henle Verlag?s series of Robert Schumann?s song cycles.

MURAIL Tristan Une relecture des Kinderszenen de Robert Schumann Discipline / Instrument : Relecture pour flûte, violoncelle et piano Création 03/03/2019 - Segry, Abbaye de La Prée - Samuel Bricault (flûte), Marie Ythier (violoncelle), Marie Vermeulin (piano) Notice [...] Enfin, pour bien illustrer cette rencontre qui est le thème de cet album, l'idée a germé, et s'est rapidement imposée, d'une réalisation que je ferais d'une oeuvre de Schumann, et qui constituerait le lien le plus évident entre les deux mondes sonores. Cette réalisation serait donc naturellement écrite pour les trois partenaires du disque, violoncelle, flûte et piano. L'idée m'est vite venue que les Kinderszenen (Scènes d'enfants) seraient parfaites pour ce projet. En effet, les Scènes d'enfants ont un potentiel musical, expressif, évocateur, qui dépasse de loin la réalisation pour piano de Schumann. Sans doute a-t-il voulu rester simple et facile - dans son esprit, les pièces devaient être jouables par des enfants. Je ne suis pas sûr que ce soit vraiment le cas... certaines pièces ne sont pas si faciles, d'autres supposent des écarts inaccessibles à une main d'enfant. Mais presque toutes sont de petits chefs-d'oeuvre, avec une grande puissance imaginative, reposant pourtant sur des idées simples et concises. Comment alors aborder cette réalisation, ou plutôt ce qui deviendra une relecturs : le regard d'un compositeur sur un autre compositeur ? J'ai vite écarté l'idée d'une instrumentation dans un style d'époque plausible - qui n'aurait presque rien apporté aux pièces originales, aussi bien que celle d'une trop profonde réécriture risquant d'aboutir à une trahison. J'ai cherché, finalement, à faire bénéficier les pièces de Schumann d'une mise en couleurs (comme on colorise de vieux films originellement en noir et blanc), d'une amplification des idées et des sentiments, tout en restant le plus fidèle à la lettre comme à l'esprit de la partition. J'ai repensé, toutes choses égales par ailleurs - car nous ne sommes là pas du tout à la même échelle -, à l'exemple magnifique des Tableaux d'une exposition orchestrés par Ravel. Ravel n'avait pas simplement orchestré le piano, il avait cherché à retrouver, cachée derrière la réalisation pianistique de Moussorgski, l'essence même des idées musicales qui avaient en fait préludé à la réalisation pour le piano, qui n'en était clairement qu'une des réalisations possibles. Fort de ces réflexions, je n'ai pas hésité, pour mon regard sur les Scènes d'enfants, à utiliser toute la moderne palette des techniques instrumentales, démultipliant ainsi les timbres disponibles et les effets acoustiques résultants de leurs combinaisons. Le flûtiste joue souvent la flûte alto, au timbre si chaud et expressif, au registre grave qui permet par endroit au violoncelle de chanter la voix supérieure. Le violoncelle est employé dans toutes ses possibilités d'articulations, de timbre, et de registre, changeant très vite d'un mode de jeu et d'une sonorité à l'autre. Réutilisant une approche de l'instrumentation que j'avais déjà mise en oeuvre dans des pièces telles que La Barque mystique, je fais rapidement changer de rôle chaque instrument, donnant ainsi l'illusion d'une orchestration bien plus nombreuse qu'un simple trio. J'ai donc cherché à accentuer le caractère de chacune des pièces, et à retrouver les intentions cachées derrière la simplicité du piano de Schumann, et j'ai ainsi obtenu des contrastes que la version originale ne permet pas - ou permet moins. Pour amplifier le côté enfantin ou féérique de la musique, je me suis autorisé quelques ajouts, que j'évoquerai plus loin ; néanmoins j'ai voulu respecter le texte intégralement, en ce sens que pas une note ne manque de la partition originale, que les harmonies tonales sont intégralement respectées, de même que l'écriture rythmique. En revanche, de concert avec les interprètes, nous n'avons pas toujours suivi les mouvements métronomiques indiqués par Schumann, qui paraissaient souvent trop rapides (il y a d'ailleurs parfois quelques contradictions entre les commentaires de Schumann sur ses pièces, et les tempi indiqués). Les pièces originales, probablement en raison des contraintes mentionnées plus haut, sont cantonnées dans les registres médium et médium-grave. J'ai décidé de les éclaircir par endroit, en ajoutant des résonances ou doublures aiguës, ou à l'inverse d'ajouter quelques notes plus graves pour donner plus de corps à la sonorité. C'est donc ainsi qu'une étrange sonorité (bisbigliando de flûte, trille d'harmoniques du violoncelle) introduit la première pièce, puis plane au-dessus d'elle (Von fremden Ländern und Menschen = Des Pays et des hommes étrangers - ou étranges), que Hasche-Mann (Colin-Maillard) deviendra encore plus furtif, tandis que le Cheval de bois (Ritter vom Steckenpferd) claquera, soufflera et hennira. Fürchtenmachen fera vraiment peur ! Dans l'ultra-célèbre Rêverie (Traümerei), après l'énoncé du thème dans ce registre si expressif de l'aigu du violoncelle, le piano prendra soudain la parole, comme dans un concerto romantique. Comme je le disais plus haut, quelques éléments enfantins viendront, à l'occasion, s'ajouter à la trame sonore : petite boîte à musique (dans l'aigu du piano) dans la première et la dernière pièce, sons percussifs col legno du violoncelle dans Wichtige Begebenheit (Evénement important) - transformé pour l'occasion en marche militaire pour soldats de plomb... Et finalement, l'enfant s'endormira (Kind im Einschlummern), bercé par le violoncelle se balançant entre ponticello et ordinario, et apaisé par les sons éoliens de la flûte... J'espère que les auditeurs partageront le plaisir que j'ai eu à imaginer cette relecture, et que nous avons eu à l'enregistrer ; un grand merci aux trois interprètes, Marie Ythier, Marie Vermeulin, et Samuel Bricault, pour leur participation enthousiaste à cette entreprise, et pour leurs nombreuses et judicieuses suggestions.

Although Robert Schumann absolutely loved to play a duet he wrote only few works for Piano duet. Created in 1848 Bilder aus dem Osten Op. 66 was one of the best-known and most frequently played works in the Piano duet literature until the 20th century. But the Polonaises Op. 3 by the 18-year-old composer following the example of Franz Schubert and even exceeding him in harmonic boldness and tonal ingenuity already show the self-taught Schumann on the way to his own style. After volume 1 which contains the easier works composed for music teaching purposes volume 2 now contains the charming yet hardly known Ballszenen Op. 109 inaddition to the two above-mentioned works. The new edition of the Wiener Urtext Edition based on the musical text of the New Schumann Complete Edition (edited by Joachim Draheim and Bernhard Appel) provides for the first time a reliable original text based on the sources especially for the 8 Polonaises which had been inadequately edited up to now. The appendix contains the popular Fantasiestücke Op. 73 (originally for Clarinet and Piano) edited by the composer and future Schumann researcher Friedrich Gustav Jansen. The arrangement published in 1851 had been revised and thus been authorized by Schumann himself.

On the 200th anniversary of Robert Schumann's birth an ambitious project is coming to a close: For the first time since Clara Schumann's Complete Edition of 1879-93 all of the works for Piano solo are appearing as oneeditorial project.Spanning almost ten years of painstaking work all of the Schumann titles published by G. Henle Publishers have undergone a careful revision. The Schumann expert Ernst Herttrich has closely examined eachedition and also dedicated himself to those works that were previously missing from the catalogue.The result is being published in this new collection comprising six volumes as well as study editions in a slipcase. Theyreplace the former four volumes (HN108-HN115). Arranged clearly according to opus numbers it includes not only all of Schumann's Piano works revised to reflect the latest scholarly findings but also informative accompanyingtexts alternative versions and much more besides.Being a complete works collection a general difficulty level cannot be applied to these volumes. As a result we have assigned a difficulty of 'advanced' as a guide to thegeneral proficiency required to play all the pieces.Contents:Symphonic Etudes op. 13 Piano Sonata with Early Version: Concert sans Orchestre f minor op. 14 Scenes from Childhood op. 15Kreisleriana op. 16

Schumann's Phantasiestucke has been published as part of ABRSM's 'Signature' Series - a series of authoritative performing editions of standard keyboard works prepared from original sources by leading scholars. Includes informative introductions and performance notes.

Tr.Liszt Franz. Par SCHUMANN ROBERT. La 'Frühlingsnacht' (Nuit de printemps) de Robert Schumann ('Über'm Garten, durch die Lüfte') comptait déjà au XIXe siècle parmi ses lieder les plus populaires. Franz Liszt en fit un arrangement pour piano dont les quelque 70 mesures s'imposent comme un véritable morceau de concert - et dont les accords en triolets exigent de la part du pianiste beaucoup d'endurance. Cela n'entrava cependant en rien la diffusion de l'oeuvre: la première édition parue en 1872 fut rééditée à plusieurs reprises du vivant de Liszt. En 1895 parut même une nouvelle gravure. Avec ses nombreuses indications d'exécution, plusieurs ossias et une reproduction du texte du poème au-dessus de la partition de piano, l'arrangement de Liszt posait de son temps, comme aujourd'hui, de grands défis au graveur, que la présente édition Henle-Urtext a relevés avec plaisir./ Répertoire / Piano

for Pianoforte and Orchestra-On her 34th birthday Clara Schumann received from her husband not only a grand piano but also the latest music material including the one-movement Concert Allegro with Introduction Op.134 as well as the composition Introduction and Allegro appassionato Op.92 which also consisted of only one movement. With both works Schumann continued the renewal of the solo concerto genre initiated by him.The editions are based on Vol. I/2/2 (RSA 1007-20) of the Robert Schumann Complete Edition.

Robert Schumann’s Sonata For Piano And Violin In A Minor Op. 105 (also known as Violin Sonata No. 1) was written in only a few days in September 1851. It consists of three movements 1. Mitleidenschaftlichem Ausdruck (dotted quarter=68) 2. Allegretto (eighth note =96) and 3. Lebhaft (quarter note = 94) with the main theme present in all of them linking the whole sonata together.Thewealth of imagination energy of sentiment and depth of thought in the sonata was acknowledged by Wasielewski fellow musician and Schumann’s first biographer. This publication takes the composer’s personal copy of thescore and the separate Violin part as its principal sources coming as close to the original intentions of Schumann as possible. An editorial preface by Wiltrud Haug-Freienstein is also included in German English andFrench.This Sonata is challenging but rewarding for both Piano and Violin. Total performance time is approximately 18 minutes.

Robert Schumann was the first to transport the lyrical character piece for piano to the domain of chamber music. He drew upon the form stamped by Schubert Mendelssohn himself and many others since about 1820 to create a series of cycles in duo combinations. With his Märchenbilder Schumann created in 1851 the first important and path-breaking composition for viola and piano that was not written in sonata or variation form.