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.

In 1848, after finishing an album of little piano pieces for his daughter Marie, Schumann devised the plan of compiling a ?children?s album?. Since then the resultant collection of 43 pieces has enjoyed unparalleled success. Schumann?s ?Album for the Young? is now presented in an Urtext edition which meets the needs of performers. In addition to the famous ?Advice to Young Musicians?(in German, English and a French translation by Liszt), other pieces related to this work but left unpublished during Schumann?s lifetime can be found in the appendix. For the first time this edition also includes Clara Schumann?s original pedal markings. Clara?s fingering served Ragna Schirmer as an important point of departure for her own thoughts on fingering. ? Urtext edition at the cutting edge of scholarship ? Many additional pieces and ?Advice to Young Musicians? in the appendix ? Original pedal markings by Clara Schumann and fingering by Ragna Schirmer ? Detailed Foreword (Ger/Eng) and detailed Critical Commentary (Eng) Edition no.: BA 9641 ISMN: 9790006539642 Volume / Series: Spielräume Editor: Stüwe, Holger M. Language(s) of work: German, English Language(s) of text: German, English Product format: Performance score(s), Urtext edition Includes the following individual parts: Piano Binding: Paperback Pages / Format: XIX, 93 S. - 31,0 x 24,3 cm

Le catalogue Henle pr?sente pratiquement l?ensemble de l??uvrepour piano de Schumann sous forme d??ditions de r?f?rence. La publication de l?op. 32 comble en l?occurrence une lacune importante. Pour garantir encore plus le succ?s de sa ?Neue Zeitschrift f?r Musik? Schumann a voulu lui adjoindre une utilit? pratique en ajoutant des suppl?ments musicaux consacr?s ? de courtes ?uvres. Ainsi il inclut encore dans cette collection la ?Gigue? et la ?Fuguette? inspir?es de Bach. Par contre le ?Scherzo? etla ?Romance? sont des formes ro-mantiques. C?est seulement plustard qu?il classe les pi?ces en question dans l?ordre repris dans la pr?sente ?dition. Leif Ove Andsnes pianisteschumannien de renom a not? le doigt? de notre ?dition. Une alternative attrayante aux albums fr?quemment jou?s dans les cours de piano mais aussi une d?couverte pour les pianistes d?sireux de jouer un Schumann ? l?inspiration grandiose.?

Album leaf for piano
First edition in cooperation with the town of Überlingen

Editor: Michael Beiche
Fingering piano: Jochen Reutter

Newly re-discovered in the run-up to the Schumann Year about three years ago, a previously unknown manuscript of an album leaf for piano by Robert Schumann was found in the Leopold Sophien Library of Überlingen. The little piano piece, entitled 'Ahnung', had been given and dedicated by Klara Schumann to a friend of hers, the lithographer and writer Julius Allgeyer. In the Wiener Urtext Edition series, this little work is published for the first time in the run-up to the Schumann Year 2010. A print of the rediscovered Schumann autograph is included in the edition. The expressive, relatively easy-to-play piece adds to the Romantic piano repertoire.