Composer
Robert Schumann
1810–1856
6,516 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 73 of 136
Symphony No. 3 in E-flat Major, "Rhenish" - Violin
Three Songs, Op. 95, No. 2: An den Mond
Six Songs, Op. 90, No. 2 - Meine Rose - No. 2 from "Six Poems" op. 90
No. 2 in F-sharp Major - Piano Score - Piano Score
Three Songs, Op. 83, No. 1: Resignation
In Paradise
Zigeunertanz
Kroatenmarsch, No. 5 from "12 Klavierstücke für kleine und grosse Kinder"
Gespenstermärchen, No. 11 from "12 Klavierstücke für kleine und grosse Kinder"
Ballszenen, No. 4: Ungarisch
Kinderball, No. 1: Polonaise
Kinderball, No. 2: Walzer
Musical Spelling
"Mit Myrthen und Rosen", Op. 24, No. 9
Der Hidalgo, Op. 30, No. 3
Wichtige Begebenheit, Op. 15, No. 6
Kind im Einschlummern, Op. 15, No. 12
Mass in C Minor, Op. 147: No. 2, Gloria
Scenes from Goethe's Faust, Part 1, No. 1: "Szene im Garten"
Genoveva, Op. 81, Act 1, No. 3: "So wenig"
Genoveva, Op. 81, Act 2, No. 9: "Wenn ich ein Vöglein wär'"
Genoveva, Op. 81, Act 4, No. 16: "Steil und steiler"
Zur hohen Jagd: "Frisch auf", No. 1 from "Jagdlieder", Op. 137
Die bieden Grenadiere, Op. 49, No. 1
Novellette No. 7 in E Major, from "Novelletten", Op. 21
The River Mulde
The David Club
Violin Sonata No. 1 - Violin - Violin
No. 11: Chiarina
Phantasiestücke, Op. 73 - Set of Parts
Kinderszehen, Op. 15, No. 01, "Von fremden Ländern und Menschen , piano/violin
Lieder und Gesänge aus Wilhelm Meister, Op. 98a, No. 3 - Nur wer die Sehnsucht kennt - No. 3 from "Lieder and Songs from Wilhelm Meister" op. 98a
Bunte Blätter, Op. 99, No. 10, Präeludium
No. 20: Pause
Six Songs, Op. 89, No. 1: Es stürmet am Abendhimmel
Impromptu No. 11
No. 5: Eusebius
Die Soldatenbraut, Op. 64, No. 1
"Schon steh'n die beiden Sänger", No. 3 from "Des Sängers Fluch", Op. 139
No. 21: Marche des Davidsbündler contre les Philistins
"Den Frühling kündet der Orkane Sausen", No. 9 from "Des Sängers Fluch", Op. 139
4 doppelchörige Gesänge, Op. 141: No. 2, Ungewisses Licht
Minnespiel, Op. 101: No. 8, Quartett "So wahr die Sonne scheinet"
Das Paradies und die Peri, Op. 50: Part 3
Liederkreis, Op. 39: No. 8, In der Fremde
Kreisleriana, Op. 16: Schnell Und Spielend
Kreisleriana, Op. 16: Sehr Inning Und Nicht Zu Rasch
Kinderszehen, Op. 15, No. 07, "Träumerei" , piano/violin
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