Wiener Urtext Edition - Schott Music

NEW PUBLICATIONS
NEW PUBLICATIONS • PIANO
ROBERT SCHUMANN
Works for piano 4 hands
- Volume 2
Content: 8 Polonaises App. G1, Pictures
from the East Op. 66, Ball Scenes Op. 109,
Fantasy Pieces Op. 73
Editor: Joachim Draheim
Fingerings and Notes on interpretation:
Ljiljana Borota, Christian Knebel
Grade: 3-4
UT 50079
will be released in June 2008
Although Robert Schumann absolutely loved
to play a duet, he wrote only few works for
piano duet. Created in 1848, Pictures from
the East Op. 66 was one of the best-known
and most frequently played works in the
piano duet literature until the 20 th century.
But the Polonaises Op. 3 by the 18-yearold
composer following the example of
Franz Schubert and even exceeding him in
harmonic boldness and tonal ingenuity
already showed the self-taught Schumann
was on the way to his own style. After
volume 1 which contains the easier works
composed for music teaching purposes,
volume 2 now contains the charming,
yet hardly known Ballszenen Op. 109 in
addition to the two above mentioned works.
ROBERT SCHUMANN
Works for piano 4 hands
- Volume 1
Content: 12 four-handed Piano Pieces for
Children Large and Small Op. 85, Children’s
Ball Op. 130, Easy four handed Piano Piece,
Op. 85 App.
Editor: Joachim Draheim
Fingerings and Notes on interpretation:
Noriko Ishikawa, Manfred Kratzer
Grade: 2-4
UT 50078 already published
Robert Schumann’s intention to create
valuable and, with regard to didactics,
sensibly created music for children and
young people was not limited to the worldfamous
Album for the Young Op. 68. Apart
from Liederalbum for the Young Op. 79,
he also created two works which should
encourage four-handed piano playing which
was very popular in 19 th -century domestic
music: the progressively arranged 12 fourhanded
Piano Pieces for Children Large and
Small Op. 85 and Childrens’s Ball Op. 130
which put the six easy dance movements
together into a charming archaic suite.
- Urtext from the new „Schumann Complete Edition“