Numerous selections from Schumann's Album for the Young have long been favorites of intermediate students, and few collections fail to include the "Soldier's March," the "Happy Farmer" or the "Wild Horseman." This historically informed edition of the entire collection clearly differentiates the mark[...]

Robert Schumann (1810-56) is one of the most important and representative composers of the Romantic era. Born in Zwickau, Germany, Schumann began piano instruction at age seven and immediately developed a passion for music. When a permanent injury to his hand prevented him from pursuing a career as [...]

This candid, intimate, and compellingly written new biography offers a completely fresh account of Robert Schumann's life. It confronts the traditional perception of the doom-laden Romantic, forced by depression into a life of helpless, poignant sadness. John Worthen's scrupulous attention to the or[...]

Volume I of an original two-book set collects Schumann's best known character pieces and piano cycles in a pristine urtext edition. Printed to precisely reproduce the artist's original intentions, it features 13 of the Romantic composer's finest works: Fantasy Pieces, Symphonic Etudes, Scenes from C[...]

Robert Schumann was far ahead of his time, not least in his attitude to children and young people; his 'Advice for Young Musicians', originally created to accompany his famous 'Album for the Young', remains as relevant today as when it was written. Celebrated cellist Steven Isserlis adds his own ext[...]

Robert Schumann (1810-1856) was the quiet one, the tormented genius. A serious illness prevented him from becoming a pianist, but he fell in love with Clara, the daughter of his teacher Friedrich Wick and married her in 1840. Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy appointed him lecturer in composition at the c[...]

Um Schumanns letzte Lebensjahre, die er in der Nervenheilanstalt in Endenich bei Bonn verbrachte, ranken sich Gerüchte, Legenden und Mutmaßungen. Opfer dieser Spekulationen ist nicht zuletzt Clara Schumann. Ihr Verhalten während dieser Zeit wird in populären Lebensbeschreibungen häufig negativ [...]

for piano. Von fremden Lndern und Menschen - Kuriose Geschichte - Haschemann - Bittendes Kind - Glckes genug - Wichtige Begebenheit - Trumerei - Am Kamin - Ritter vom Steckenpferd - Fast zu ernst - Frtemachen - Kind im Einschlummern - Der Dichter spricht - Kriitsche Anmerkungen - Critical Notes[...]