An especially marked example is a passage in the song entitled wehmut. Schumann changes the words to nightingales let sound from their dungeons vault. July 29, 1856, endenich near bonn, germany the artist. Poetry, music and fremdartigkeit in robert schumanns hans. Eichendorffs romantic phantasmagoria and schumanns liederkreis, op. 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. For those of you who are unfamiliar with this gorgeous song, a recording can be found here hermann prey and a link the score can be found here imslp. Files are available under licenses specified on their description page. Dietrich fischerdieskau, gunther weissenborn piano year of recording. Germany 1810 1856 542 sheet music 240 mp3 140 midi.
In 1840, a proverbial year of song for a composer who had last written romantic songs when at school, schumann was galvanised by his love for clara wieck and the prospect of his forthcoming marriage, to pour out almost 140 of his finest lieder. T he most perfect of all song cycles is baritone christian gerhahers description of schumanns op 39 liederkreis, and he has constructed the whole of. Schon bald danach erfreuten sich einzelne lieder des werkes gro. Eichendorffs poetry is strikingly different from the poems generally associated with schumann heine, kerner, and other intense, passionate, and. Aug 19, 2017 matthias goernepiano eric schneiderpiano 1999. Song cycle by robert schumann 18101856 text by heinrich heine 17971856. Sheet music arranged for pianovocal, and singer pro in g major. Schumann set the music to, any differences from the original are compared in the preface. This score is a part of the openscore lieder corpus. The romantic conception of cyclic form cambridge, 2011 and the melody of time. The listener is treated to pioneering interpretations which laid the foundations for these sets of songs to become. This song cycle was one of the earlier products of schumanns liederjahr year of song, referring to his nearly exclusive devotion to song composition from 18401841, immediately after his marriage to clara wieck. The less familiar six poems from a painters songbook op 36, also composed. Of this cycle schumann said, the voice alone cannot reproduce everything or produce every.
Thus nightingales let sound from their cages vault. Sheet music arranged for pianovocal, and singer pro in e major transposable. All structured data from the file and property namespaces is available under the creative commons cc0 license. You might know schumann for his cello concerto, piano concerto, or his abundance of solo piano work, perhaps his small output of wonderful chamber music, his symphonies it seems he had his hand or pen in just about every form there was to write, save opera but.
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