Kazuko Ozawa

As with the Dichterliebe (HN549), Frauenliebe und Leben (HN547) or the song cycles with texts by Heine and Eichendorff (HN548 and 550), the Kerner Cycle op. 35 was written in 1840, Schumann’s “Liederj...

As with the Dichterliebe (HN549), Frauenliebe und Leben (HN547) or the song cycles with texts by Heine and Eichendorff (HN548 and 550), the Kerner Cycle op. 35 was written in 1840, Schumann’s “Liederj...

1840 was Schumann’s famous “year of song” that brought forth over 100 lieder. They included Myrthen op. 25, which he dedicated “to his dear bride”, Clara Wieck-Schumann. Besides famous songs such as “...

1840 was Schumann’s famous “year of song” that brought forth over 100 lieder. They included Myrthen op. 25, which he dedicated “to his dear bride”, Clara Wieck-Schumann. Besides famous songs such as “...

Yet you, a man, have sensed in these songs a depth which hardly the most knowing female heart can feel! Thus an admirer wrote to Robert Schumann concerning his song cycle Frauenliebe und Leben. Schuma...

Yet you, a man, have sensed in these songs a depth which hardly the most knowing female heart can feel! Thus an admirer wrote to Robert Schumann concerning his song cycle Frauenliebe und Leben. Schuma...

Schumann was the first to set a complete cycle of Heinrich Heine's poems to music. His literary 'forks of lightning' had already fascinated Schumann when he was 17 years old. However, he only wrote op...

I would like to sing myself to death like a nightingale' - 1840, Schumann's most prolific 'song year', was marked by great private upheaval. He was only able to finally marry Clara in September after...

1840 was Schumann's famous 'year of song' that brought forth over 100 lieder. They included Myrthen op. 25, which he dedicated 'to his dear bride', Clara Wieck-Schumann. Besides famous songs such as '...

'Yet you, a man, have sensed in these songs a depth which hardly the most knowing female heart can feel!' Thus an admirer wrote to Robert Schumann concerning his song cycle Frauenliebe und Leben. Schu...

At long last, singers with a lower vocal range can also rely on Henle's Urtext editions of Schumann; the wonderful Song Cycle op. 24 on poems by Heine now appears in a transposed version, edited by Sc...

At long last, singers with a lower vocal range can also rely on Henle's Urtext editions of Schumann; the wonderful Song Cycle op. 24 on poems by Heine now appears in a transposed version, edited by Sc...

The ups and downs of disappointed love: who could fail to sympathize with the feelings that Schumann immortalized in his song cycle Dichterliebe after Heine? The pieces range from hopeful anticipation...

The ups and downs of disappointed love: who could fail to sympathize with the feelings that Schumann immortalized in his song cycle Dichterliebe after Heine? The pieces range from hopeful anticipation...

The Liederkreis op. 39, first published in 1842, remains one of Schumann's most important song cycles to this day, and not only because of the famous 'Mondnacht'. Eight years later, Schumann revised h...

The Liederkreis op. 39, first published in 1842, remains one of Schumann's most important song cycles to this day, and not only because of the famous 'Mondnacht'. Eight years later, Schumann revised h...

The ups and downs of disappointed love: who could fail to sympathize with the feelings that Schumann immortalized in his song cycle Dichterliebe after Heine? The pieces range from hopeful anticipation...

As with the 'Dichterliebe' (HN549), 'Frauenliebe und Leben' (HN547) or the song cycles with texts by Heine and Eichendorff (HN548 and 550), the 'Kerner Cycle op. 35' was written in 1840, Schumann's 'L...

The New Robert Schumann Edition (RSA) is intended as a historico-critical edition of the collected works. They will be carefully studied and prepared according to present-day musicological and editori...