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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).
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 ...
Robert Schumann [n 1] (/ ˈ ʃ uː m ɑː n /; German: [ˈʁoːbɛʁt ˈʃuːman]; 8 June 1810 – 29 July 1856) was a German composer, pianist, and music critic of the early Romantic era. He composed in all the main musical genres of the time, writing for solo piano, voice and piano, chamber groups, orchestra, choir and the opera. His works ...
Song cycles (German: Liederzyklus or Liederkreis) are series of Lieder (generally three or more) tied by a single narrative or theme, such as Schubert's Die schöne Müllerin and Winterreise, or Robert Schumann's Frauen-Liebe und Leben and Dichterliebe. Schubert and Schumann are most closely associated with this genre, mainly developed in the ...
Dichterliebe, A Poet's Love (composed 1840), is the best-known song cycle by Robert Schumann (Op. 48).The texts for its 16 songs come from the Lyrisches Intermezzo by Heinrich Heine, written in 1822–23 and published as part of Heine's Das Buch der Lieder.
Myrthen (), Op. 25, is a song cycle composed in the spring of 1840 by Robert Schumann.Its 26 Lieder were written as a wedding gift for his fiancée, Clara Wieck, and presented to her on the eve of their wedding which took place on 12 September that year.
Liederkreis, Op. 39, is a song cycle composed by Robert Schumann. Its poetry is taken from Joseph von Eichendorff's collection entitled Intermezzo. Schumann wrote two cycles of this name – the other being his Opus 24, to texts by Heinrich Heine – so this work is also known as the Eichendorff Liederkreis. Schumann wrote, "The voice alone ...
Der Handschuh [1] (Tran: The Glove) is a German lied written by Robert Schumann and published in 1850 as his Op.87. The song's text is the eponymous poem by German poet Friedrich Schiller, written in 1797 as part of a ballad competition alongside friend and colleague Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.