Schumann, Robert AUTOGRAPH WORKING MANUSCRIPT OF FOUR SONGS FROM “LIEDERKREIS” OP.24 TO POEMS BY HEINE This manuscript would appear to be part of Schumann’s first draft for one of his greatest song-cycles, celebrated for the Romantic circumstances of its composition. The early composition drafts for No.5 “Schöne Wiege Meiner Leiden”, no.6 “Warte, warte, wilder Schiffsmann”, no.7 “Berg und Burgen schau’n herunter” and no.9, “Mit Myrthen und Rosen”, the vocal line and the words for the four songs throughout, lacking the last eight bars of the vocal line of the final song, diverging frequently from the final version, with a few sketches for the piano accompaniments on separate systems, notated in brown ink on up to twelve staves per page, with many deletions, revised passages, corrections and alterations throughout, and with a presentation inscription signed by Clara Schumannon the left margin of the first page (“Handschrift Robert Schumanns an Frau Dr Spiess von Clara Schumann, Frkf. a/M Dec: 1882”) 4 pages, oblong 4to, 12-stave paper, uncut, no place or date, [Leipzig, February 1840
Schumann, Robert AUTOGRAPH WORKING MANUSCRIPT OF FOUR SONGS FROM “LIEDERKREIS” OP.24 TO POEMS BY HEINE This manuscript would appear to be part of Schumann’s first draft for one of his greatest song-cycles, celebrated for the Romantic circumstances of its composition. The early composition drafts for No.5 “Schöne Wiege Meiner Leiden”, no.6 “Warte, warte, wilder Schiffsmann”, no.7 “Berg und Burgen schau’n herunter” and no.9, “Mit Myrthen und Rosen”, the vocal line and the words for the four songs throughout, lacking the last eight bars of the vocal line of the final song, diverging frequently from the final version, with a few sketches for the piano accompaniments on separate systems, notated in brown ink on up to twelve staves per page, with many deletions, revised passages, corrections and alterations throughout, and with a presentation inscription signed by Clara Schumannon the left margin of the first page (“Handschrift Robert Schumanns an Frau Dr Spiess von Clara Schumann, Frkf. a/M Dec: 1882”) 4 pages, oblong 4to, 12-stave paper, uncut, no place or date, [Leipzig, February 1840
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