G. Henle Verlag

Urtext Edition

Composer: Robert Schumann
Editor: Kazuko Ozawa
Format: Book
Version: Original keys for high and medium voice, with piano

As with the Dichterliebe, Frauenliebe und Leben or the song cycles with texts by Heine and Eichendorff, the Kerner Cycle op. 35 was written in 1840, Schumann's "Liederjahr". Yet it has a special place: it was composed in the time immediately following Schumann's marriage to Clara Wieck. Schumann set a series of poems to music in November, during a "quiet week, which went by with composing and much loving and kissing", and the cycle was complete by the turn of the year. It contains a great deal of intimate musical innuendos. The first edition of 1841 was soon followed by a second issue, many of the songs were published individually and the "Wanderlied" soon became a core piece in the repertoire. With this G. Henle edition the songs in Schumann's cycle are once again being published together in a single volume.

Contents:

• Twelve Poems op. 35
• Lust der Sturmnacht op. 35,1
• "Stirb, Lieb' und Freud'!" op. 35,2
• Wanderlied op. 35,3
• Erstes Grun op. 35,4
• Sehnsucht nach der Waldgegend op. 35,5
• Auf das Trinkglas eines verstorbenen Freundes op. 35,6
• Wanderung op. 35,7
• Stille Liebe op. 35,8
• Frage op. 35,9
• Stille Tranen op. 35,10
• "Wer machte dich so krank?" op. 35,11
• Alte Laute op. 35,12