Robert Schumann

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Life

Born: 8 June 1810

Died: 29 July 1856

Biography:

Robert Schumann, sometimes given as Robert Alexander Schumann, was a German composer, aesthete and influential music critic. He is one of the most famous Romantic composers of the 19th century.

He had hoped to pursue a career as a virtuoso pianist, having been assured by his teacher Friedrich Wieck that he could become the finest pianist in Europe after only a few years of study with him. However, a hand injury prevented those hopes from being realized, and he decided to focus his musical energies on composition. His published compositions were, until 1840, all for the piano; he later composed works for piano and orchestra, many lieder, four symphonies, an opera, and other orchestral, choral and chamber works. His writings about music appeared mostly in Die neue Zeitschrift für Musik ("The New Journal for Music"), a Leipzig-based publication that he jointly founded.

In 1840, after a long and acrimonious legal battle with her father, he married pianist Clara Wieck, a considerable figure of the Romantic period in her own right. For the last two years of his life, after an attempted suicide, Schumann was confined to a mental institution.

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List of choral works

Oratorios

Mixed voices

  1. Der König von Thule   ( Icon_pdf.gif Icon_snd.gif )
  2. Schön-Rohtraut   ( Icon_pdf.gif Icon_snd.gif )
  3. Heidenröslein     (2 editions available)
  4. Ungewitter   ( Icon_pdf.gif Icon_snd.gif )
  5. John Anderson     (2 editions available)
  1. An die Sterne     ( Icon_pdf.gif Icon_snd.gif Sibelius 2 )
  2. Ungewisses Licht     ( Icon_pdf.gif Icon_snd.gif Sibelius 2 )
  3. Zuversicht     ( Icon_pdf.gif Icon_snd.gif Sibelius 2 )
  4. Talismane     ( Icon_pdf.gif Icon_snd.gif Sibelius 2 )

Men's chorus

Die Rose stand im Tau, Op. 65, No. 1     ( Icon_pdf.gif Icon_snd.gif Finale 1998 )

Women's chorus

Arrangements for chorus

Songs

  • Liederkreis, opus 39 (Eichendorf)
    1. In der Fremde ("Aus der Heimat")
    2. Intermezzo
    3. Waldesgespräch   ( Network.png )
    4. Die Stille
    5. Mondnacht
    6. Schöne Fremde
    7. Auf einer Burg
    8. In der Fremde ("Ich hör' die Bächlein rauschen")
    9. Wehmut   ( Network.png )
    10. Zwielicht     (2 editions available)
    11. Im Walde   ( Network.png )
    12. Frühlingsnacht
  • Liederkreis opus 24 (Heine)
    1. Morgens steh' ich auf
    2. Es treibt mich hin
    3. Ich wandelte unter den Bäumen
    4. Lieb' Liebchen
    5. Schöne Wiege
    6. Warte, warte wilder Schiffsmann
    7. Berg' und Burgen schau'n
    8. Anfangs wollt' ich fast verzagen
    9. Mit Myrthen und Rosen


Duets


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Publications

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