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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 ...
Waldszenen (Forest Scenes), Op. 82, is a set of nine short solo piano pieces composed by Robert Schumann in 1848–1849, first published in 1850–1851 in Leipzig by Bartholf Senff. [ 1 ] On the set, Schumann wrote: "The titles for pieces of music, since they again have come into favor in our day, have been censured here and there, and it has ...
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 ...
Schumann in a Josef Kriehuber etching from 1839, the year preceding his marriage to Clara. It was at this time that he began to compose vocal music prolifically. The following is a list of the complete vocal output of Robert Schumann (8 June 1810 – 29 July 1856). Schumann was one of the most prolific composers of the nineteenth century.
A typical performance lasts approximately 18–19 minutes. In the months leading up to working on this symphony Schumann had been studying and transcribing the music of Beethoven, whose influence can be heard in the first two movements, particularly the use of short motives rather than full-blown melodies in the first movement and the solemn rhythms of the second, which are reminiscent of the ...
The last part of the 1840s were productive years for Schumann. [2] Following his marriage to Clara in 1840, Schumann had rediscovered an interest in the composition of music not for piano solo which he had pursued to a degree in his youth, but which he had largely abandoned to focus upon the more remunerative music that would appear during his twenties.
This list is based upon the Thematisch-Bibliographisches Werkverzeichnis, a comprehensive catalogue of Schumann's works compiled by Margit L. McCorkle and published in 2003. Since Schumann's death scholars have made several separate attempts to catalogue his works not published with opus numbers.
Carnaval, Op. 9, is a work by Robert Schumann for piano solo, written in 1834–1835 and subtitled Scènes mignonnes sur quatre notes (Little Scenes on Four Notes). It consists of 21 short pieces representing masked revelers at Carnival, a festival before Lent.