Robert Schumann Sheet Music

With the 'Introduction and Concert Allegro', composed in 1853 and dedicated to Johannes Brahms, we have completed our editions of Schumann's works for piano and orchestra. The famous Piano Concerto in...

Robert Schumann's 'Frühlingsnacht' ('Spring night') was one of his most popular songs even in the 19th century. Franz Liszt made a piano arrangement of it that in the space of under 70 measures emerge...

Schumann was a poet at the piano, and the best known of his piano pieces bear programmatic titles such as 'Träumerei' ('Reverie'), 'Von fremden Ländern und Menschen' ('Of foreign lands and people') or...

Schumann began work on the Toccata op. 7 when he was only 20 years old. At the time he was studying law, following his family's wishes. He did not, however, intend to have his first manuscript, entitl...

Encouraged by the success of his 'Papillons', Schumann composed his 'Intermezzi' op. 4, also known as 'longer Papillons', in 1832. Despite the at times improvisatory style, Schumann worked very carefu...

A secret engagement, a composer as prospective father-in-law and several rival publishing houses - it was against this backdrop that the work was composed. His youthful and passionate love for Ernesti...

An Urtext edition of Robert Schumann's Exercices - Studies On A Theme By Beethoven, as edited by Robert Munster.

I am endlessly looking forward to the second sonata', thus Clara wrote to Robert in 1838, 'Your whole being is so clearly expressed in it.' Nonetheless in the same letter she encouraged him to revise...

Following Schumann's fi rst, evidently unsuccessful attempt at composing a 'Sonata' - he only had the opening movement published under the title 'Allegro in b minor' - he tried once again in 1833. It...

As is the case with quite a few of his works, there are two versions of Schumann's opus 14 - a three-movement 'Concert sans Orchestre' from 1836 and a 'Grande Sonate' in five movements from 1853. We d...

The Henle catalogue contains almost all of Schumann's works for piano in top quality editions. With the publication of op. 32 we are filling an important gap. In or-der to help his 'Neue Zeitschrift f...

'Do you not know Jean Paul, our great writer? I have learnt more counterpoint from him than from my music teacher'. His 'Vorschule der Ästhetik' with its extensive treatment of humour probably occasio...

Everywhere only confused combinations of figures, dissonances, passages - in short, for us torture' - Schumann certainly did not deserve this contemporary slating. He only published the opening moveme...

It was in February 1854, a few weeks before Robert Schumann's admission to the psychiatric hospital in Endenich, that he wrote his variations on a theme in E-flat major. Because of the extraordinary,...

Robert Schumann was fascinated by the violin virtuoso Nicolò Paganini, as were many composers of the time. When he was planning a piano tutor in 1832/33 that was to include his own works as well as th...

'... as your bride, you must indeed dedicate something further to me, and I know of nothing more tender than these 3 Romances, in particular the middle one, which is the most beautiful love duet.' It...

Schumann kept coming back to variation form. He often wrote his own variations in contrast to those on popular (operatic) themes, with which piano virtuosi of the time flooded the market. The 'Impromp...

The Novelettes arose at roughly the same time as the Kinderszenen and share the same largely untroubled mood. Writing to Clara Wieck, Schumann could exclaim 'I've written such a frightful amount of mu...

Following Schumann's move to the Rhine, where he had become the musical director of the Düsseldorf Music Society, times became hard for him. Despite several initial successes, he increasingly encounte...

'Even for me it is a strange and wonderful fact that almost every motif which forms within me bears the characteristics for multiple contrapuntal combinations', Schumann wrote to Mendelssohn. 1845 was...

As he was interested in politics, Schumann took an active interest in the democratically motivated unrest in spring 1848. The following year he directly witnessed the May uprising in Dresden, after wh...

Our series of revised Schumann editions continues with this delicately wrought set of variations. 'Opus 18 and 19 are frail things for ladies': thus, with a wink of the eye, Schumann alluded to his wi...

In response to failures, Schumann once again turned more to composing during his time in Düsseldorf. He wrote many new works - also ones for the piano for which he had only written a few pieces after...

To commemorate the 200th anniversary of Robert Schumann's birth, an ambitious project has been realized in 2010: For the first time since Clara Schumann's Complete Edition of 1879-93, all of the works...

To commemorate the 200th anniversary of Robert Schumann's birth, an ambitious project has been realized in 2010: For the first time since Clara Schumann's Complete Edition of 1879-93, all of the works...