Robert Schumann (1810-1856)

Overview

According to The New Penguin Dictionary of Music, Robert [Alexander] Schumann was a German composer, also pianist, conductor and noted as critic with wide sympathies. Married Clara Wieck, 1840. Developed mental instability, in 1854, throwing himself into the Rhine; afterwards was in a mental asylum, where he died. His work shows romantic outlook and literary associations - cp. the fanciful titles (some given after composition, however) of various piano works e.g. " Abegg Variations", "Carnival", "Carnival Jest from Vienna". Other works include many songs (some in cycles, e.g. "Poet's Love", "Woman's Love and Life"); 3 string quartets, piano concerto, cello concerto, violin concerto (not heard until 1937 being suppressed by Clara Schumann and Joachim as unworthy); 4 symphonies; cantata "Paradise and the Peri", opera "Genoveva", "Scenes from Goethe's Faust", incidental music to Byron's "Manfred".
Robert Schumann has G-A-D-E in Flötenbüchlein für kleine Leute (D/D).

Websites:
	DAHR: Robert Schumann	List of 585 historic recordings from 1897 to 1947.

	Title (Release Year)	Composer	Performers	Issue


Historic Records
Der Nussbaum (1904)	R. Schumann	Marcella Sembrich	Victor: B-1951
Mondnacht (1923)	R. Schumann	Carmela Ponselle	Columbia: 81420
Sous la fenêtre (1913)	R. Schumann	Edmond Clément Geraldine Farrar	Victor: B-12911

Books

	Title	Author	Supplier


	Complete Symphonies in Full Score	Robert Schumann
	The Great Piano Works of Robert Schumann	Robert Schumann
	Schumann (Master Musicians Series)	Eric Frederick Jensen

CDs

	Performer	CD Title	Supplier


	Folk Music CDs:
	Various Artists	Weltliche Chormusik der Romantik
	Ann Leaf	That Ain't the Way I Heard It (LP)
	Recorder Music CDs:
	Loeki Stardust Quartet Amsterdam	Fuge around the clock
	Choral Music CDs:
	Various Ensembles	Rheinmadchen

	Title	Attribution	Instruments	Source	Remarks


Die beiden Grenadiere (18--)	R. Schumann (music) L. C. Elson (words)	Piano, Voice	Indiana
Die Lotosblume (1902)	R. Schumann (music) Theodore Baker (words) Heinrich Heine (words)	Piano, Voice	Indiana
Merry Farmer's Return From Work (1893)	R. Schumann (w&m)	Piano, Voice	Indiana	Pub.
Nachtstück (1915)	R. Schumann (music)	Piano	Indiana
Nichts schöneres (1865)	R. Schumann (music)	Piano	Indiana
Soaring - Aufschwung (1914)	R. Schumann (music)	Piano	Greer
Träumerei und Romanze (n.d.)	R. Schumann (w&m)	Piano, Voice	Indiana	Pub.

Sheet Music

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Adagio and Allegro Op 70 (Archive) (Horn)

Arr./Editor: Lorenzo Sansone
Publisher: Southern Music Company (SS350)

Sonatina in G Major Op. 118: No. 1 (D/Piano)

Score and Parts. 14 pages.
This edition: ED10679.
Level: Medium
Part: Soprano Recorder. This edition: ED10679-01. -

Publisher: Schott & Co. Ltd. (49002470)

Sweet Betsy Suite (Trumpet)

Level: Grade 2.
Publisher: Southern Music Company (ST380)

Traumerei (Trumpet)

Arr./Editor: Richard S Level: Grade 3.
Publisher: Southern Music Company (SU81)

Traumerei (Baritone)

Arr./Editor: Richard S Level: Grade 3.
Publisher: Southern Music Company (SU82)

Pieces from The Album for the Young (D/A/T/B)

Score and Parts.
Publisher: Moeck Verlag (MK02132)

Brass Sheet Music

Variations on a Theme of Robert Schumann (Baritone)

16 pages.
Level: Grade 4.
Publisher: Southern Music Company (ST444)