Composer
Robert Schumann
1810–1856
5,066 works in the index
- Era
- Romantic
- Nationality
- Kingdom of Saxony
- Born in
- Zwickau
Schumann wrote in concentrated bursts — a year of songs, a year of chamber music — and the catalogue reflects that clustering. The piano cycles and the songs are what most people come for.
Album für die Jugend is the rare case of a great composer writing genuinely well for beginners, and it remains one of the best first books of real repertoire. Kinderszenen is harder than its title suggests but within reach of an intermediate player; Carnaval, Kreisleriana and the Fantasie are advanced.
His songs, especially Dichterliebe and the Liederkreis settings, sit alongside Schubert's at the centre of the German song repertoire and are published in the usual high, medium and low editions.
Catalogue
Works page 1 of 106
Kinderszenen, op. 15: Träumerei
Album für die Jugend: X. Fröhlicher Landmann
Myrthen, op. 25: Nr. 1. Widmung
Schumann: Complete Works (Volume I)
Arabeske in C Major, Op. 18
Schumann: Album for the Young op. 68
Soldiers' March
Waldszenen, op. 82: IX. Abschied. Nicht zu schnell
Fantasiestücke, op. 12: III. Warum?
Melody
Papillons, Op. 2
Myrthen, op. 25: Nr. 7. Die Lotosblume
Fantasiestücke, op. 12: I. Des Abends
Myrthen, op. 25: Nr. 3. Der Nußbaum
Myrthen, op. 25: Nr. 24. Du bist wie eine Blume
The Reaper's Song, Op. 68, No. 18 (Schnitterliedchen)
27. Ich grolle nicht
Schumann: Album Leaves op. 124
Lieder und Gesänge, op. 51: Nr. 2. Volksliedchen
Waldszenen, op. 82: VII. Vogel als Prophet. Langsam, sehr zart
Soldier's March, Op. 68, No. 2 (Soldatenmarsch)
The Wild Horseman
Cradle Song (Wiegenliedchen), Op. 24, No. 6
Davidsbundler Tanze, Op. 6
Phantasietanz
From Foreign Lands And People (From "Scenes From Childhood")
Romanze
Waltz, Op. 129, No. 4
Carnaval, op. 9
Liederkreis, op. 39: Nr. 3. Waldesgespräch
Du Ring an Meinem Finger
The Reaper's Song
Schumann: Scenes from Childhood op. 15
13. Der Dichter spricht (The Poet Speaks)
Schumann: Album Leaves (Albumbl
Intermezzi Op.4
Kreisleriana Op.16
Op.12: Fantasiest
12. Chopin
Lied Ohne Ende (Album Leaves)
Romanzen und Balladen, op. 49: Nr. 1. Die beiden Grenadiere
Liederkreis, op. 39: Nr. 1. In der Fremde ("Aus der Heimat hinter den Blitzen rot")
The Wild Horseman, Op. 68, No. 8
06. Wichtige Begebenheit (Great Adventure)
"Remembrance (Erinnerung), Op. 68 No. 28"
Dichterliebe, op. 48: IX. Das ist ein Flöten und Geigen
Kreisleriana, op. 16
Allegro Op.8
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