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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 ...
Title page for the first edition of Kinderszenen.. The following is a list of compositions by Robert Schumann for piano solo and for pedal piano solo. [note 1] Schumann was a pianist himself and wrote over fifty works for the piano, numbering hundreds of constituent pieces and movements.
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 ...
Kreisleriana, Op. 16, is a composition in eight movements by Robert Schumann for solo piano, subtitled Phantasien für das Pianoforte. Schumann claimed to have written it in only four days in April 1838 [1] and a revised version appeared in 1850.
Schumann started writing the music in mid-January 1851. His wife Clara noted in her diary on 17 January that he was now working on the overture. [ 9 ] He wrote out the full score between 27 January and 2 February, finishing it only a few days before he conducted the premiere of his 3rd Symphony, "Rhenish" (6 February).
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 ...
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 ...
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.