The overture was written in just five days in December 1851. The starting point for this composition was Schumann's desire to use Goethe's work of the same name as a basis for a singspiel. The Marseillaise that can be heard in the overture alludes to a scene of the epos.
SKU: HL.49044184
ISBN 9783795794668. 10.0x13.5x1.09 inches.
The New Robert Schumann Edition (RSA) is intended as a historico-critical edition of the collected works. They will be carefully studied and prepared according to present-day musicological and editorial techniques and presented in their entirety. Drafts, sketches and fragments, in short, everything that has come down to us as being authentically by Schumann and which, in most cases, has been deliberately preserved by him, will be brought together, evaluated as to its importance and documented in some form or other in the edition of the complete works.It is the aim of the edition to reproduce authentic texts which - having corrected scribal, copying and printing errors and eradicated later additions and other textual corruptions - will approach as closely as is possible the intention of the originals.The critical edition will form the basis of accurate performance material for Robert Schumann's work.
SKU: CA.4033696
ISBN 9790007131623. Language: all languages.
Score available separately - see item CA.4033600.
