Par SCHUMANN ROBERT. In 1925, Breitkopf & Härtel approached the young pianist Wilhelm Kempff to prepare Clara Schumann’s “Instructive Edition” of her husband’s works for the new engraving. “[…] The comparison with the autograph and the Urtext edition [First Schumann Complete Edition], the results of the Schumann research, the modern principles of notation – all of this would have to be taken into …

Song Cycle. Par SCHUMANN ROBERT. 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 settin…

Par SCHUMANN ROBERT. Clara Wieck's sincerest wish was that her future husband, Robert Schumann, turn his extraordinary genius toward the larger and more challenging task of composing orchestral music. Confiding in her diary in 1839, just one year before her marriage, she explained that ; it would be best if he composed for Orchestra: his imagination cannot find sufficient scope in the Piano&hellip…

Album per la gioventù Op. 68. Par SCHUMANN ROBERT. The volume brings together two of Robert Schumann’s most famous collections of piano pieces for the young. Scenes from the Childhood (Kinderszenen), op. 15, contains a series of short pieces for piano written by Schumann in February 1838. These form the German composer’s poetic cycles, together with the Kreisleriana. As their titles suggest, Schum…

Schumann's song cycle 'Frauenliebe und Leben?, on poems by Adelbert von Chamisso, deals with the trauma of a woman who loses the man who was her first love and the guiding light of her life. Schumann himself completed what is perhaps his most unified song cycle in blissful anticipation of his union with Clara Wieck.This new edition presents the work on the basis of the first print, using Schumann'…

for 2 Violins, Viola and Violoncello. Par SCHUMANN ROBERT. 'The next I'll do is 3 violin quartets' wrote Schumann to Clara Wieck in 1838, stating his reasons in a letter dated 17 March 1838: 'The thought of the quartets gives me pleasure. The piano is getting too narrow for me. In composing now I often hear a lot of things that I can barely suggest. For instance, it is remarkable how I invent almo…

J'ai encore une fois composé tellement que parfois il me semble tout à fait étrange. Oh, je ne peux pas elle, j'aimerais me chanter à mort comme un Rossignol. ' 138 de ses chansons à peu près 250 ont été écrites dans le 'année de lieder' 1840. Ce fut l'année lorsque les longues années de querelles sur son mariage avec Clara Wieck est enfin entrées à une fin heureuse par ordonnance de la Cour. Mais…

Par GALLOIS JEAN. Ayant grandi dans les décou-vertes des littératures romantiques de son temps, Robert Schumann (1810-1856) abandonne ses études de droit pour se consacrer à  la musique, ambitionnant de devenir le plus grand pianiste de son temps et d'épouser la fille de son professeur, Clara Wieck. C'est finalement elle qui Mènera une carriêre internationale, promouvant les compositions de son ép…

Par SCHUMANN CLARA. Clara Schumann (née Wieck) was undoubtedly the most important female pianist of the 19th century. As a young child she toured Europe as a prodigy: her entire career as a celebrated piano virtuoso spanned more than 60 years. Equally important, but less well known, is the composer Clara Schumann, who published her Opus 1 at the age of eleven. Despite the domestic duties expected …

La partie principale du Supplément Volume 12 dispose le prédécesseur de Grandes Etudes de Paganini , une série de six études écrites après Paganini entre 1838 et 1840, et en passant par Liszt performances transcendant ( Etudes d'exécution transcendante d'apres Paganini ) . La série a été inspiré non seulement par le violoniste virtuose et Caprices et le Concerto pour violon du compositeur en si mi…

Par KLASSEN JANINA. / Livre / Divers