Clara Schumann

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Born: 1819 — Leipzig — Germany
Died: 1896 — Frankfurt am Main — Germany
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Music

  • Op. 1 Quatre polonaises pour le Pianoforte Description: No.1 in E flat; No. 2 in C; No. 3 in D; No. 4 in C Dedication: None Composed: 1830 First published: Leipzig: Fr. Hofmeister, 1831 (Platten-Nr. 1590) New edition: Hrsg. von Babette Hierholzer. Berlin: Ries und Erler, 1987
  • Op. 2 Caprice en forme de Valse pour le Piano Dedication: Madame Henriette Foerster, née Weicke Composed: 1831/32 First published: Paris: Stoepel; Leipzig: Fr. Hofmeister, 1832 (Platten-Nr. 1675)
  • Op. 3 Romance varié pour le Piano Dedication: Monsieur Robert Schumann Composed: 1833 First published: Leipzig: Fr. Hofmeister, 1833 (Platten-Nr. 1897) New edition: In: Schumann, Clara: Romantische Klaviermusik. Hrsg. von Franzpeter Goebels. Heidelberg: Süddeutscher Musikverlag, 1977. Heft II
  • Op. 4 Valse romantiques pour le Piano Dedication: Madame Emma Eggers née Garlichs Composed: 1835 First published: Leipzig: F. Whistling, 1836. Plates sold to Hofmeister (Leipzig), 1838 (subsequent editions: Platten-Nr. 2307)
  • Op. 5 Quatre Pièces caractéristiques Description: No. 1, ‘Le Sabbat’; No. 2 ‘Caprice à la Bolero’; No. 3 ‘Romance’; No. 4 "Le ballet des revenants’ Dedication: Mademoiselle Sopie Kaskel Composed: 1835 First published: Leipzig: F. Whistling, 1835 or 1836. Plates sold to Hofmeister (Leipzig), 1838 (subsequent editions: Platten-Nr. 2308) New edition: In: Wieck-Schumann, Clara: Ausgewählte Klavierwerke. Hrsg. von Janina Klassen. München: G. Henle, 1987
  • Op. 6 Soirées Musicales Description: No.1 Toccatina; No. 2 Notturno; No. 3 Mazurka; No. 4 Ballade; No. 5 Mazurka; No. 6 Polonaise Dedication: Madame Henriette Voigt Composed: 1836 First published: Leipzig: Fr. Hofmeister, 1836 (Platten-Nr. 2148) New edition: In: Wieck-Schumann, Clara: Ausgewählte Klavierwerke. Hrsg. von Janina Klassen. München: G. Henle, 1987
  • Op. 7 Premier Concert pour le Piano-Forte avec accompagnement d’Orchestre (ou de Quintour) Description: Piano Concerto in A minor: Allegro maestoso; Romanze; Andante non troppo; Finale: Allegro non troppo Dedication: Monsieur Louis Spohr Composed: 1833/35 First published: Leipzig: Fr. Hofmeister, 1837 (Platten-Nr. 2169)
  • Op. 8 Variations de Concert pour le Piano-Forte sur la Cavatine du ‘Pirate’ de Bellini Dedication: Monsieur Adolph Henselt Composed: 1837 First published: Wien: Tobias Haslinger, 1837 (Platten-Nr. T. H. 7368) Reprint: Schumann, Clara: Selected piano music. New York: Da Capa Press, 1979
  • Op. 9 Souvenir de Vienne. Impromptu Dedication: None Composed: 1838 First published: Wien: Diabelli, 1838 (Platten-Nr. 6530)
  • Op. 10 Scherzo pour le Pianoforte Description: Scherzo No. 1 in D minor (Con passione) Dedication: None Composed: probably 1838 First published: Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, 1838 (Platten-Nr. 5987) New edition: In: Wieck-Schumann, Clara: Ausgewählte Klavierwerke. Hrsg. von Janina Klassen. München: G. Henle, 1987
  • Op. 6 Soirées Musicales Description: No.1 Toccatina; No. 2 Notturno; No. 3 Mazurka; No. 4 Ballade; No. 5 Mazurka; No. 6 Polonaise Dedication: Madame Henriette Voigt Composed: 1836 First published: Leipzig: Fr. Hofmeister, 1836 (Platten-Nr. 2148) New edition: In: Wieck-Schumann, Clara: Ausgewählte Klavierwerke. Hrsg. von Janina Klassen. München: G. Henle, 1987
  • Op. 7 Premier Concert pour le Piano-Forte avec accompagnement d’Orchestre (ou de Quintour) Description: Piano Concerto in A minor: Allegro maestoso; Romanze; Andante non troppo; Finale: Allegro non troppo Dedication: Monsieur Louis Spohr Composed: 1833/35 First published: Leipzig: Fr. Hofmeister, 1837 (Platten-Nr. 2169)
  • Op. 8 Variations de Concert pour le Piano-Forte sur la Cavatine du ‘Pirate’ deBellini Dedication: Monsieur Adolph Henselt Composed: 1837 First published: Wien: Tobias Haslinger, 1837 (Platten-Nr. T. H. 7368) Reprint: Schumann, Clara: Selected piano music. New York: Da Capa Press, 1979
  • Op. 9 Souvenir de Vienne. Impromptu Dedication: None Composed: 1838 First published: Wien: Diabelli, 1838 (Platten-Nr. 6530)
  • Op. 10 Scherzo pour le Pianoforte Description: Scherzo No. 1 in D minor (Con passione) Dedication: None Composed: probably 1838 First published: Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, 1838 (Platten-Nr. 5987) New edition: In: Wieck-Schumann, Clara: Ausgewählte Klavierwerke. Hrsg. von Janina Klassen. München: G. Henle, 1987
  • Op. 11 Trois Romances pour le Piano Description: No.1 in E flat minor; No. 2 in G minor; No. 3 in A flat Comments: The Romance no. 2 was published seperately as Andante und Allegro in the supplement to the "Neue Zeitschrift für Musik" in September 1839 Dedication: Monsieur Robert Schumann Composed: 1839 First published: Wien: Mechetti, 1840 (Platten-Nr. P. M. 3391) New edition: In: Wieck-Schumann, Clara: Ausgewählte Klavierwerke. Hrsg. von Janina Klassen. München: G. Henle, 1987 Music sample
  • Op. 12 Zwölf Gedichte aus F. Rückert’s Liebesfrühling für Gesang und Pianoforte von Robert und Clara Schumann Description: Three songs by Clara Schumann: No. 2 "Er ist gekommen"; No. 4 "Liebst du um Schönheit"; No. 11 "Warum willst du And’re fragen?" (Originally published as Robert Schumann’s Liebesfrühling, op. 37) Dedication: None Composed: June 8, 1841 First published: Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, 1841 (Platten-Nr. 6596/97)
  • Op. 13 Sechs Lieder mit Begleitung des Pianoforte Description: No. 1 "Ich stand in dunklen Träumen" (text by Heinrich Heine) Composed: Christmas 1840 No. 2 "Sie liebten sich beide" (text by Heinrich Heine) Composed: June 8, 1842 No. 3 "Liebeszauber" ("Die Liebe sass als Nachtigall" (text by Emanuel Geibel)) Composed: June 8, 1842 No. 4 "Der Mond kommt stillgegangen" (text by Emanuel Geibel) Composed: July 1842 No. 5 "Ich hab’ in deinem Auge" (text by Friedrich Rückert) Composed: June 1843 No. 6 "Die stille Lotusblume" (text by Emanuel Geibel) Composed: July 1842 Dedication: Queen Caroline Amalie of Denmark Composed: First published: Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, ca. 1843 (Platten-Nr. 6996) New edition: Schumann, Clara: Sechs Lieder für eine mittlere Stimme mit Klavierbegleitung op. 13, Edition Breitkopf Nr. 5463
  • Op. 14 Deuxième Scherzo pour le Pianoforte Description: Scherzo No. 2 in C minor (Con fuoco) Dedication: Madame Tutein née Siboni Composed: after 1840 First published: Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, 1845 (Platten-Nr. 7214) New edition: In: Schumann, Clara: Romantische Klaviermusik. Hrsg. von Franzpeter Goebels. Heidelberg: Süddeutscher Musikverlag, 1977. Heft II
  • Op. 15 Quatre Pièces fugitives pour le Pianoforte Description: No. 1 in F Major (Larghetto); No. 2 in A minor (Un poco agitato); No. 3 in D Major (Andante espressivo); No. 4 in G Major (Scherzo) Dedication: Marie Wieck Composed: probably 1840/44 First published: Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, 1845 (Platten-Nr. 7215) New edition: In: Schumann, Clara: Romantische Klaviermusik. Hrsg. von Franzpeter Goebels. Heidelberg: Süddeutscher Musikverlag, 1977. Heft II
  • Op. 16 3 Praeludien und Fugen für das Pianoforte Description: No. 1 in G minor; No. 2 in B flat; No. 3 in D minor Dedication: None Composed: 1845 First published: Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, 1845 (Platten-Nr. 7334) New edition: In: Schumann, Clara: Romantische Klaviermusik. Hrsg. von Franzpeter Goebels. Heidelberg: Süddeutscher Musikverlag, 1977. Heft II
  • Op. 17 Trio für Pianoforte, Violine und Violoncello Description: Allegro moderato; Tempo di Menuetto; Andante; Allegretto Dedication: None Composed: 1846 First published: Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, 1847 (Platten-Nr. 7562) New edition: Unbekannte Werke der Klassik und Romantik, München-Gräfeling, Walter Wollenweber, 1972
  • Op. 18 Missing possibly intended for unpublished Piano Sonata in G minor (Allegro, Scherzo, Adagio, Rondo)
  • Op. 19 Missing possibly intended for unfinished Concertino in F minor for piano and orchestra
  • Op. 20 Variationen für das Pianoforte über ein Thema vonRobert Schumann Dedication:Robert Schumann Composed: June 1853 First published: Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, 1854 (Platten-Nr. 8944) New edition: In: Wieck-Schumann, Clara: Ausgewählte Klavierwerke. Hrsg. von Janina Klassen. München: G. Henle, 1987
  • Op. 21 3 Romanzen für Pianoforte Description: No. 1 in A minor; No. 2 in F; No. 3 in G minor Dedication:Johannes Brahms Composed: 1853 First published: Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, 1855 or 1856 (Platten-Nr. 9200) New edition: In: Schumann, Clara: Romantische Klaviermusik. Hrsg. von Franzpeter Goebels. Heidelberg: Süddeutscher Musikverlag, 1977. Heft II
  • Op. 22 3 Romanzen für Pianoforte und Violine Description: No. 1 in D flat; No. 2 in G minor; No. 3 in B flat Dedication:Joseph Joachim Composed: 1853 First published: Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, 1855 (Platten-Nr. 9201) Reprint: Wiesbaden: Breitkopf & Härtel, 1983
  • Op. 23 6 Lieder aus Jucunde von Hermann Rollet Description: No. 1 "Was weinst du, Blümlein?". Composed: June 9, 1853 No. 2 "An einem lichten Morgen". Composed: June 13, 1853 No. 3 "Geheimes Flüstern hier und dort". Composed: June 10, 1853 No. 4 "Auf einem grünen Hügel". Composed: June 16, 1853 No. 5 "Das ist ein Tag". Composed: June 21, 1853 No. 6 "O Lust, o Lust". Composed: June 19, 1853 Dedication: Livia Frege Composed: 1853 First published: Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, 1855 or 1856 (Platten-Nr. 9202)

Works without opus number

  • Das Abendstern Text by? Composed: Unknown
  • Am Strande Also published as "Am Strand". Text by Robert Burns Dedication: None Composed: Christmas 1840 First published: Neue Zeitung für Musik, 14 (July 1841), suppl.
  • Beim Abschied (Letzten Abschied). Text by Friederike Serre Composed: June 1843
  • Cadenzas for Beethoven Piano Concerto in G Major, op. 58 Composed: 1846 First published: Leipzig: Rieter-Biedermann, ca. 1870 (Plate no. 636)
  • Cadenza for Beethoven Piano Concerto in C Minor, op. 37 Composed: 1868 First published: Leipzig: Rieter-Biedermann, ca. 1870 (Plate no. 636)
  • Cadenzas for Mozart Piano Concerto in D Minor (KV 466) Composed: Unknown First published: Leipzig: Rieter-Biedermann, ca. 1891 (Plate no. 1770) Location of autograph: Library of Congress, Washington, DC
  • Concerto Concertino movement in F minor for piano and orchestra Unfinished, one incomplete movement only Dedication:Robert Schumann Composed: 1847 Drei gemischte Chöre "Abendfeyer in Venedig," "Vorwärts," "Goldoliera." Text by Emanuel Geibel. Composed: 1848
  • Etude Composed: presumably early 1830s
  • Die gute Nacht Text by Friedrich Rückert This text was set for four voices by Robert Schumann, op. 59, no. 4 Composed: June 8, 1841
  • Impromptu Dedication: None Composed: ca. 1844 First published: In: Album du Gaulois. Paris, 1885
  • Loreley "Ich weiss’ nicht was soll es bedeuten". Text by Heinrich Heine Composed: June 8, 1843 Marsch Dedication: Julius and Pauline Hübner Composed: 1879
  • Mein Stern ("O du mein Stern"). Text by Friederike Serre Dedication: None Composed: June 1846 First published: As "O Thou My Star" (transl. by Leopold Wray). London: Wessell, 1848 (Plate no. 6945)
  • O weh des Scheidens Text by Friedrich Rückert Composed: June 1843
  • Präludium und Präludien für Schüler Composed: improvisations written out probably in 1895
  • Romanze A minor Dedication: Rosalie Leser Composed: July 1853
  • Romanze für Gesang und Klavier Text by Johannes Peter Lyser Dedication: None Composed: 1833/34? First published: In: Lyser’s Liedersammlung, 1834 Sonatine Allegro, Scherzo, Adagio, Rondo Composed: 1841/42
  • Das Veilchen "Ein Veilchen auf der Wiese stand". Text by Johann von Goethe Composed: July 7, 1853
  • Volkslied "Es fiel ein Reif in der Frühlingsnacht". Text by Heinrich Heine Composed: Christmas 1840
  • Vorspiele Composed: improvisations written out probably in 1895
  • Walzer für Gesang und Klavier Text by Johannes Peter Lyser Dedication: None Composed: 1833/34? First published: In: Lyser’s Liedersammlung, 1834

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