Variés, vivants et profonds, les textes ici rassemblés constituent une parfaite introduction à la pensée et à la sensibilité du grand musicien.

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C'est à l'âge de dix-neuf ans que Robert Schumann fit la connaissance de Clara, enfant prodige du piano. Ils jouaient ensemble à quatre mains, il improvisait pour elle. Leur amitié passionnée se transmua bientôt en un amour conscient de luimême, auquel s'opposa vigoureusement le père de Clara. Après trois années de souffrance et de clandestinité, ils passèrent outre le refus paternel et se marièrent le 15 septembre 1840. Les lettres publiées dans ce volume s'arrêtent à cette époque.
Unique de simplicité et d'émotion romanesque, cette correspondance nous donne à voir deux existences pour lesquelles l'amour et la musique ne sont qu'une seule et même chose. Chez Clara, l'on découvre aussi un amour filial torturé, et ce que la vie de virtuose comporte, même dans le succès et la gloire, de travail forcené et de solitude. Chez Robert, se dévoilent les souffrances et exaltations de la création.
Un duo extraordinaire, où l'enthousiasme et la sagesse, la fierté et l'humilité, l'ardeur, et surtout l'appel constant de la musique, se font entendre dans la joie et la douleur d'une adoration réciproque.

Lettres d'amour

Der Reiz sich zu maskieren, zu verkleiden und fÃ¼r einen Moment jemand anderes zu sein wurde in der Musik durch Kompositionen wie "Ein Maskenball", "Maskerade" oder "Carnaval" vielfach zum Ausdruck gebracht. In den humoristischen Variationen Ã¼ber ein Thema von Robert Schumann lÃ¤sst Peter Wittrich den frÃ¶hlichen Landmann in verschiedene Rollen schlÃ¼pfen und begibt sich mit ihm auf eine Zeitreise vom Barock bis zur Moderne. In zehn Variationen macht Wittrich den Landmann mit den verschiedenen Stilen und berÃ¼hmten Themen der Musikepochen bekannt, indem er das beliebte Thema Robert Schumanns kontrapunktisch im Sinne Bachs verarbeitet, ihm die Mozart'sche Sonatenhauptsatzform Ã¼berstÃ¼lpt oder den Landmann eine stolze Polonaise mit Frï¿½dï¿½rick Chopin tanzen lÃ¤sst. Der frÃ¶hliche Landmann wird auÃŸerdem zum Jazzpianisten und improvisiert mit Ella Fitzgerald und Oscar Peterson im Bluesstil, bevor er sich in einem Grand final brillant dem rauschenden Virtuosentum des 19. Jahrhunderts gemeinsam mit Tschaikowsky, Liszt und Rachmaninov hingibt. Neben der AuffÃ¼hrung des kompletten Werks kÃ¶nnen, z. B. fÃ¼r "Jugend musiziert", auch einzelne Variationen nach stilistischen PrÃ¤ferenzen zu kleinen Zyklen zusammengestellt werden oder dem Originalwerk gegenÃ¼ber gestellt werden. Ein erfrischend unterhaltsamer Beitrag zum Schumann-Jahr 2010.Schwierigkeitsgrad: 3-4

Edition Schott

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.

Das Brautbuch - Supplement R11

Robert Schumann's 'Album for the Young' is one of the milestones of educationally inspired piano literature. This edition does not focus on systematic technical studies but on the development of the player's musical performance as well as on the realisation of musical associations. In this progressively structured work, the pieces 'Für Kleinere' [For the Younger Ones] are followed by a second section 'Für Erwachsenere' [For the More Grown-Ups] which, both technically and intellectually, leaves the world of the childlike behind again and again (e. g. Mignon). This, in particular, provides a great set of repertoire for adults who want to resume piano playing, which gives extra relavence to Schumann's opus. The appendix of the revised new edition of the Wiener Urtext Edition also contains pieces originally intended for the album which, ultimately, were not included in the printed collection. The music section is complemented by the composer's 'Musikalische Haus- und Lebensregeln', which had already been integrated in the first reprints, including their original translations into English and French, the latter of which was written by none other than Franz Liszt. Instrumentation : piano op. 68

Album pour la jeunesse - Urtext. op. 68. piano.

With more than 1, 200 titles from the orchestral and choral repertoire, from chamber music and musical theatre, Edition Eulenburg is the world's largest series of scores, covering large part of music history from the Baroque to the Classical era and looking back on a long tradition. Instrumentation : string quartet op. 41/1

Eulenburg Miniature Scores

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. Instrumentation : piano

Ouvertures - Klavierauszüge zu zwei und vier Händen. piano. Partition et notes critiques.

He gave a present to me and my little Marie of a delightful lullaby composed that Christmas afternoon, Clara Schumann noted in the family diary they shared. This "Slumer Song" of 1841 Robert Schumann later included as No. 16 in his collection of Albumblätter (Album Leaves) Op. 124. The collection of twenty miniatures for piano was written over a fairly long period of time : the first piedes were written in 1832/33 and the composer started work on the last piece, the Canon, in 1845. In 1853 Schumann had the idea of brining together barious individual pieces that didn't fit in anywhere else in a collection of Albumblätter that was published in December of the same year. It is a bright bouquet of poetic little piano pieces of moderate technical difficulty : there can be no comparsion with grand works such as his G minor piano sonata of Carnaval. These musical aphorisms were not intended for the concert hall, though, but for domestic music making : this is chamber music in the true sense of the term. After unpleasant wrangling that even involved going to court to obtain permission to marry Clara Wieck, there followed a time of intense productivity for Robert Schumann : 1840 was his "year of songs" and 1841 his "year of symphonies". Their marriage, which eventually took place against the wishes of Schumann's father-in-law, and the birth of their first child on 1 September 1841 contributed much to his personal happiness. It was for Marie that the hyppy father now composed this "Slumber Song", which has enjoyed great popularity ever since : a simple and tender lullaby, written by the father as a surprise ´gift. This lullgy lends itself very well to being performed on a melodic instrument with piano accompaniment, as in thes edition for violin. Instrumentation : violin and piano op. 124/16

Berceuse - op. 124/16. violin and piano.

With more than 1, 200 titles from the orchestral and choral repertoire, from chamber music and musical theatre, Edition Eulenburg is the world's largest series of scores, covering large part of music history from the Baroque to the Classical era and looking back on a long tradition. Instrumentation : piano trio op. 110

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