Baerenreiter Verlag

Composer: Robert Schumann
Librettist: Heinrich Heine
Editor: Hansjorg Ewert
Format: Book, Urtext Edition
Voicing: High Voice and Piano

• High-quality Urtext edition of this well-known song cycle
• Appendix includes four lieder by Schumann which he did not include in the original cycle
• Comprehensive foreword and critical commentary (Ger/Eng)

Robert Schumann once described his lieder as a "mirror image of his self". This applies particularly to his compositions from Heinrich Heine's "Buch der Lieder".

What began as a lyrical intermezzo, then developed into "Dichterliebe", a work with which Schumann identified the ardour of his love for Clara Wieck.

This work still presents an enigma to performers; how Schumann interpretes Heine's irony in his music is often discussed. But one thing is certain: with "Dichterliebe" the composer created what is perhaps the best-loved and one of the most tightly-woven lieder cycles of the Romantic period.

This edition presents the work based on the first edition. It takes Schumann's autograph score into consideration, an autograph score where there have recently been discussions as to whether it should be presented as an independent alternative version. The four lieder omitted by Schumann from the printed edition are included in the appendix.

Contents:

• Preface
• Lied texts
• I. Im wunderschonen Monat Mai
• II. Aus meinen Tranen spriessen
• III. Die Rose, die Lilie, die Taube, die Sonne
• IV. Wenn ich in deine Augen seh'
• V. Ich will meine Seele tauchen
• VI. Im Rhein, im heiligen Strome
• VII. Ich grolle nicht
• VIII. Und wussten's die Blumen
• IX. Das ist ein Floten und Geigen
• X. Hor' ich das Liedchen klingen
• XI. Ein Jungling liebt ein Madchen
• XII. Am leuchtenden Sommermorgen
• XIII. Ich hab' im Traum geweinet
• XIV. Allnachtlich im Traume
• XV. Aus alten Marchen
• XVI. Die alten bosen Lieder
• Appendix:
  • Dein Angesicht op. 127,2
  • Lehn' deine Wang' op. 142,2
  • Es leuchtet meine Liebe op. 127,3
  • Mein Wagen rollet langsam op. 142,4
• Alternatives from the Autograph
• Critical Report