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The complete work was first given in 1862 in Cologne, six years after Schumann's death. [135] Schumann's other works for voice and orchestra include a Requiem Mass, described by the critic Ivan March as "long-neglected and under-prized". [136] Like Mozart before him, Schumann was haunted by the conviction that the Mass was his own requiem. [136]
The Geistervariationen (Ghost Variations), or Theme and Variations in E-flat major for piano, WoO 24, composed in 1854, is the last piano work of Robert Schumann.The variations were composed in the time leading up to his admission to an asylum for the insane and are infrequently played or recorded today.
Gesänge der Frühe (Songs of the Morning), Op. 133, is a composition in five movements by Robert Schumann for solo piano. A performance takes about 13 minutes. Composed in October 1853, it is one of Schumann's last compositions, composed three years before his death. By the time he began work on these pieces, he was suffering from mental and ...
Because his first 26 published works were all written for solo piano, the first ten years of Schumann's career are strongly associated with the instrument; nevertheless, he composed and published work for the piano throughout his entire life, and Schumann's final composition, the Geistervariationen, was a set of variations for solo piano.
While Schumann was contractually obligated to perform in cathedrals several times per year after his move 1850 to Düsseldorf, documentation is not conclusive on the composer's religious background. [3] During Schumann's stay in an asylum for a suicide attempt, his requiem was one of few that he continued to compose.
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Robert Schumann. This list of compositions by Robert Schumann is classified into piano, vocal, orchestral and chamber works. All works are also listed separately, by opus number. Schumann wrote almost exclusively for the piano until 1840, when he burst into song composition around the time of his marriage to Clara Wieck. The list is based on ...
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