Format : Score and Parts
Opus 132-No romantic poetry and no concrete fairytale figure occasioned Schumann to write this composition. Today we can assume that the title of the pieces originally entitled 'Romances' was merely supposed to conjure up a poetic andfairytale world. Presumably inspired by Mozart’s 'Kegelstatt' Trio K. 498 Schumann occupied himself intensively with plans for a work for this distinctive combination of instruments whose 'unique effect' enthused him. Yet almostthree years passed before he sent a publisher these works that he had 'written with great pleasure'. The first edition contained a violin part as an alternative to the clarinet. As this part was authorized by Schumann it is alsoincluded in this Urtext edition.
SKU: HL.49046031
ISBN 9790001165297. UPC: 841886031678. 9.0x12.0x0.213 inches.
The Fairy-Tale Narratives (Märchenerzählungen) for B-flat Clarinet (ad libitum Violin), Viola and Piano, Op. 132, belong to the few Schumann works that were composed, revised and published in a short time: composed in Düsseldorf, at beginning of October 1853, the new composition was already offered for publication to the Breitkopf & Härtel publishing house on 3 November and printed in February1854. Composition and publication of the Märchenerzählungen were accompanied, though, by difficult times, the final days before the composer was admitted to the psychiatric clinic in Endenich. The work's reception lies in the shadow of the last creative period: The pieces were associated with his life's darker phases and were very little played. The Märchenerzählungen transmit Schumann's single work for this unusual piano trio with viola and clarinet. The only well-known earlier example in this setting at that time is Mozart's “Kegelstatt” Trio K 498 (composed in 1786). Schumann was certainly already acquainted with the work from his Leipzig years - it was played in one of the “quartet sessions” in 1829. This edition is based on a new edition of all Schumann works, Volume II / 3.
SKU: TM.06609SC
Can use clarinets instead of oboes. Chorus in C-clefs in score.
SKU: PR.ZM30870
SKU: TM.06609SET
SKU: HL.49045889
9.0x12.0x0.33 inches.
As far back as I can remember, I have always been fascinated with fairy tales: with their archetypal characters and set phrases like'Once upon a time...'and'...they all lived happily ever after'. Fairy tales were however also a source of unrest for me as a seismograph of mankinds underlying primal fears and desires. So as a performer and composer I have always felt that Robert Schumann's Marchenerzahlungen [Fairy Tales] (scored for the same instrumentation as my own composition) was a disjointed, complex contemporary work - despite the innocence and naivety of its initial appearance. I therefore do not intend my own Es war einmal (Once upon a time...)to be a mere sentimental, nostalgic flight into the distant past, but as a naive and fantastical alternative concept to our genuine world with all its upheavals. Jorg Widmann.
