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 vocal works

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Choral works

Mixed voices

• Zigeunerleben, Op. 29, No. 3   (   Finale 2000 )
• Zahnweh, Op. 55, No. 2   (   Finale 2001 )
• Mich zieht es nach dem Dörfchen hin, Op. 55, No. 3   (  )
• Volksliedchen   (  )
• Bänkelsänger Willie   (   Finale 2001 )
• Heidenröslein, Op. 67, No. 3   (   Finale 2001 )
• John Anderson, Op. 67, No. 5   (  )
• Der traurige Jäger, Op. 75, No. 3   (   Finale 2001 )
• Der Rekrut, Op. 75, No. 4   (   ) English version: (   )
• Vom Schlaraffenland, opus 79 #5   (   )
• Vier doppelchörige Gesänge, Op. 141   (   Sibelius 2 )

1. An die Sterne   (   Sibelius 2 )
2. Ungewisses Licht   (   Sibelius 2 )
3. Zuversicht   (   Sibelius 2 )
4. Talismane   (   Sibelius 2 )

• Der Schmidt, Op. 145, No. 1   (   )

Men's chorus

• Der träumende See, opus 33 #1   (   )
• Die Minnesänger, opus 33 #2   (   )
• Der Zecher als Doctrinair, opus 33 #4   (   )
• Rastlose Liebe, opus 33 #5   (  )
• Frühlingsglocken, opus 33 #6   (  )

• Die Rose stand im Tau, Op. 65, No. 1   (   Finale 1998 )

Arrangements for chorus

• Belsazar (arranged for SAB)    (   )
• Im wunderschönen Monat Mai    3 editions available, SSAATTBB, SSAA, and the original solo version

Songs

• Dichterliebe, opus 40
  • Im wunderschönen Monat Mai    3 editions available, SSAATTBB, SSAA, and the original solo version
  • Wenn ich in deine Augen seh'   (  )
  • Ich grolle nicht   2 editions available
  • Am leuchtenden Sommermorgen   (  )
  • All nächtlich im Traume   (  )

• Liederkreis, opus 39
  • Waldesgespräch   (   )
  • Zwielicht   2 editions available
  • Wehmut   (  )
  • Im Walde   (  )

• Wenn durch die Piazzetta   (  )
• Wenn ich früh in den Garten   (  )
• Widmung   (   )
• Aus den östlichen Rosen   (  )
• Die Lotusblume   (   )
• Belsazar (as arranged for SAB)    (   )
• Requiem für Mignon   (  LilyPond )
• Zum Schluß   (  )
• Die Hütte   (  )
• Leis' rudere hier   (  )
• Setze mir nicht, du Grobian   (  )
• Lied der Braut, No. 1   (  )
• Lied der Braut, No. 2   (  )

• Die Capelle (double canon) (SSAA)    (   IGOR )

• Gute Nacht, Op. 59, No. 4   2 editions available

• Herbstlied (duet)    (  )

• Wiegenlied am Lager eines kranken Kindes, Op. 78, No. 3   ( Capella )

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Publications

External links

• Münchener DigitalisierungsZentrum / Bayerische Staatsbibliothek: Gesamtwerk, Hrsg. von Clara Schumann