SCHUMANN German Lieder For Low Voice

SKU: HL.49018081

ISBN 9790001171465. German.

'I have again composed so much that sometimes it seems to me altogether uncanny. Oh, I cannot help it, I would like to sing myself to death like a nightingale.' 138 of his roughly 250 songs were written in the 'lieder year' 1840. This was the year when the long years of quarrelling about his marriage to Clara Wieck finally came to a happy end by court order. But even the following years turned out to be productive with regards to the composition of lieder. The current edition contains the lieder that form part of Schumann's 'late work' or were published rather late. It is based on the recently published Vol. VI/6 (RSA 1043-10) of the Robert Schumann Complete Edition.

SKU: BR.EB-8888

ISBN 9790004185117. 0 x 0 inches. German.

The piano-accompanied Lied is undoubtedly the main genre of Pauline Viardot-Garcia's oeuvre. With this volume, we present settings of German texts by such poets as Ludwig Uhland, Eduard Morike, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Heinrich Heine, Emanuel Geibel, Ludwig Rellstab and Richard Pohl. Except for the Uhland settings, these German Lieder were written between 1862 and 1871 during Viardot's Baden-Baden period, when she shifted the focus of her activities from singing to composing and teaching. Here she worked, among other things, on the poetry of Eduard Morike, which she called the greatest and most genuine in all German poetry after Goethe.One of her first published songs was the setting of the Uhland poem Des Knaben Berglied. Accompanying herself on the piano, she performed it in 1838 on her first concert tour of Germany. A performance of the song at the Leipzig Gewandhaus prompted Robert Schumann to remark: She showed three talents here [composition, singing and piano playing], each of which would grace its artist. Through her music, Viardot brings the creatures in the poems to life, tracing their different characters and inner states, thus giving the texts a new level of interpretation.

Mi riam-Alexandra Wigber's recordings of songs from this edition can be found on YouTube.

SKU: HL.49023866

ISBN 9783795756925. German.

Kinder und Lieder haben vieles gemeinsam, Kinder und Lieder machen niemals einsam, Kinder und Lieder machen leicht und froh, Kinder und Lieder sind das A und O!In diesem Buch finden sich viele Lieder fur alle Gelegenheiten zu Hause, in der Schule und Freizeit und uberall dort, wo gesungen wird.Die Lieder sind durchgangig mit Akkorden versehen. Die Gitarrengriffe und Klavierakkorde sowie Griffe fur Sopranblockflote und die Tone auf der Klaviatur und dem Xylophon sind im Anhang extra aufgefuhrt, so dass ein Nachspielen auch fur Nichtprofis moglich ist.

SKU: HL.51480551

ISBN 9790201805511. UPC: 888680950781. 8.25x11.75x0.295 inches.

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 interesting early 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.

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