Robert Schumann Sheet Music

Robert Schumann

Robert Schumann (* June 8, 1810 in Zwickau, † July 29, 1856 in Endenich), one of the most important representatives of the Romantic period, is known to many for his extensive piano works and his 150 songs of vocal music. What piano student hasn't dreamed of Schumann's Kinderszenen op. 15, even if this collection about moments of a childhood wasn't intended as children's pieces. Titles like Faschingsschwank aus Wien op. 26, Album für die Jugend op. 68 or the Davidsbündlertänze op. 6 are regularly found on concert posters and indicate a Schumann program, often in connection with a song recital, for example with Heinrich Heine's Dichterliebe op. 48, Joseph von Eichendorff's Liederkreis op. 39 or the Liederkreis Myrthen op. 25, to name Schumann's best-known song collections.

In the second half of his life, however, Schumann increasingly devoted himself to orchestral, chamber and choral music – the opera Genoveva op. 81 was also written during this period. This was due in no small part to the fact that Schumann was increasingly refraining from his own piano playing due to a permanent ailment in his right hand. He also developed the ability to draft his compositions in his head and put them directly on paper, and in this way created four symphonies and four overtures, seven concertante works (including his Piano Concerto in A minor, op. 54, whose main theme is introduced by a wonderfully cantabile oboe solo), a dozen or so choral works with orchestra, and 12 choral music compositions, as well as 16 chamber music works.

You can search our online store specifically for titles by Robert Schumann, for example, in the spelling robert schumann kreisleriana for all editions of the piano cycle' Kreisleriana op. 16, which Schumann composed in 1883 in reference to E.T.A. Hoffmann's character of the "Kapellmeister Kreisler." Schumann's oeuvre has been recorded in opus numbers. Thus, you can also search specifically for a work whose opus number you know, for example in the notation robert schumann op. 120, to get to our piano reductions, arrangements and study scores of Schumann's final version Symphony No. 4 in D minor op. 120.