G. Henle Verlag

Original Keys for High Voice

Composer: Robert Schumann
Editor: Kazuko Ozawa
Format: Softcover, Urtext Edition
Voicing: High Voice and Piano

1840 was Schumann's famous "year of song" that brought forth over 100 lieder. They included Myrthen op. 25, which he dedicated "to his dear bride", Clara Wieck-Schumann. Besides famous songs such as "Widmung", "Lotosblume", and "Nussbaum" to texts by German poets, the collection also saw Schumann venture further afield, whether to the Scottish Highlands with settings of Robert Burns or to Italy for the "Venetian Songs" of Thomas Moore. Schumann specialist Kazuko Ozawa has examined the first edition of 1840 and all the manuscript sources. Among the dedicatory autograph copies she has also discovered interesting early versions of individual songs that are here published in an appendix. This Urtext edition is rounded off with an extensive history of how Myrthen was composed. This volume is a superlative addition to G. Henle Verlag's series of Robert Schumann's song cycles.

Contents:

• Myrthen op. 25
• Widmung op. 25,1
• Freisinn op. 25,2
• Der Nussbaum op. 25,3
• Jemand op. 25,4
• 2 Lieder aus dem Schenkenbuch im Divan op. 25,5-6
• Die Lotosblume op. 25,7
• Talismane op. 25,8
• Lied der Suleika op. 25,9
• Die Hochlander-Witwe op. 25,10
• 2 Lieder der Braut aus dem Liebesfruhling op. 25,10-11
• Hochlanders Abschied op. 25,13
• Hochlandisches Wiegenlied op. 25,14
• Aus den hebraischen Gesangen op. 25,15
• Rathsel op. 25,16
• Zwei Venetianische Lieder op. 25,17-18
• Hauptmanns Weib op. 25,19
• Weit, weit! op. 25,20
• Was will die einsame Trane op. 25,21
• Niemand op. 25,22
• Im Westen op. 25,23
• Du bist wie eine Blume op. 25,24
• Aus den ostlichen Rosen op. 25,25
• Zum Schluss op. 25,26
• Appendix
• Weit, weit! Fruhfassung in der Neuen Zeitschrift fur Musik
• Du bist wie eine Blume Fruhfassung fur Elisa Meerti
• Du bist wie eine Blume Fruhfassung fur Clara Wieck