Create successful ePaper yourself
Turn your PDF publications into a flip-book with our unique Google optimized e-Paper software.
PIANO SOLO<br />
Schumann’s Popular Character Pieces<br />
Schumann, Robert<br />
(1810–1856)<br />
Album for the Young<br />
43 <strong>Piano</strong> Pieces op. 68<br />
Urtext with fingering /<br />
Ed. H. M. Stüwe<br />
Fingering and suggestions<br />
for performance<br />
by R. Schirmer<br />
☞ BA 9641<br />
In 1848, after finishing an<br />
album of little piano pieces for<br />
his daughter Marie, Schumann<br />
devised the plan of compiling<br />
a ‘children’s album’. Since then<br />
the resultant collection of<br />
43 pieces has enjoyed<br />
unparalleled success.<br />
In addition to the famous<br />
‘Advice to Young Musicians’<br />
(in German, English and a<br />
French translation by Liszt),<br />
other pieces related to the<br />
“Album for the Young” but<br />
left unpublished during<br />
Schumann’s lifetime can be<br />
found in the appendix. For the<br />
first time this edition also<br />
includes Clara Schumann’s<br />
original pedal markings.<br />
Clara’s fingering served Ragna<br />
Schirmer as an important<br />
point of departure for her own<br />
thoughts on fingering.<br />
NEW <strong>20</strong><strong>20</strong><br />
Arabeske/Blumenstück<br />
Urtext / Ed. H. M. Stüwe<br />
Notes on performance practice<br />
by Sezi Seskir<br />
☞ BA 10865<br />
in preparation<br />
From: Schumann, Forest Scenes op. 82 · BA 9640<br />
Forest Scenes op. 82<br />
Urtext with fingering /<br />
Ed. H. M. Stüwe<br />
Fingering and suggestions<br />
for performance<br />
by R. Schirmer<br />
☞ BA 9640<br />
Vogel als Prophet and<br />
Herberge have been printed<br />
using a fold-out page so that<br />
no page turns are necessary.<br />
Scenes from Childhood op. 15<br />
Urtext with fingering /<br />
Ed. H. M. Stüwe<br />
Fingering and suggestions for<br />
performance by R. Schirmer<br />
☞ BA 9639<br />
In the spring of 1838 Schumann<br />
composed “30 short, sweet<br />
things”, as he called them in<br />
a letter to his fiancée Clara<br />
Wieck. From these piano<br />
miniatures he chose twelve<br />
pieces. At the beginning of the<br />
following year, now expanded<br />
with a thirteenth piece, they<br />
were published as “Scenes<br />
from Childhood”.<br />
The work was enthusiastically<br />
received by Liszt. He wrote to<br />
Schumann in June 1839 that he<br />
was frequently playing “Scenes<br />
from Childhood” to his then<br />
three-and-a-half year old<br />
daughter Blandine.<br />
“This edition should be in<br />
every teacher’s library.”<br />
(Music Teacher magazine)<br />
• With fingerings and<br />
suggestions for performance<br />
by Ragna Schirmer<br />
• With original pedal markings<br />
by Clara Schumann<br />
• Practical page turns<br />
• Urtext editions at the cutting<br />
edge of scholarship<br />
• With detailed Prefaces<br />
(Ger/Eng) and Critical<br />
Commentaries (Eng)<br />
38<br />
38
Change language