Baerenreiter Verlag Album for the Young op. 68, 43 Piano Pieces - Schumann/Stuwe - Piano - Book

• Composer/Author: SCHUMANN, ROBERT
• Instrumentation: PIANO
• Model # BA9641

Composer: Robert Schumann
Editor: Holger M. Stuwe
Fingering/Performance Practice: Ragna Schirmer
Format: Performance Score, Urtext Edition
Instrumentation: Piano

• Urtext edition at the cutting edge of scholarship
• Many additional pieces and "Advice to Young Musicians" in the appendix
• Original pedal markings by Clara Schumann and fingering by Ragna Schirmer
• Detailed Foreword (Ger/Eng) and detailed Critical Commentary (Eng)

In 1848, after finishing an album of little piano pieces for his daughter Marie, Schumann devised the plan of compiling a "children's album". Since then the resultant collection of 43 pieces has enjoyed unparalleled success. Schumann's "Album for the Young" is now presented in an Urtext edition which meets the needs of performers. In addition to the famous "Advice to Young Musicians" (in German, English and a French translation by Liszt), other pieces related to this work but left unpublished during Schumann's lifetime can be found in the appendix. For the first time this edition also includes Clara Schumann's original pedal markings. Clara's fingering served Ragna Schirmer as an important point of departure for her own thoughts on fingering.

Contents:

• Preface
• Fingering and Notes on Performance Practice
• 43 Piano Pieces for the Young op. 68:
  • Erste Abteilung (for the Smaller ones):
    • Melody
    • Soldiers' March
    • Humming Song
    • A Chorale
    • Little Piece
    • The Poor Orphan
    • Hunters' Song
    • The Wild Horseman
    • Little Folk Song
    • The happy farmer, returning from work
    • Sicilienne
    • Farmhand Rupert
    • May, sweet May, soon you will be back
    • Little Study
    • Spring Song
    • First Loss
    • Little Morning Wanderer
    • Reaper's Song
  • Zweite Abteilung (for more Grown-up ones):
    • Little Romance
    • Rustic Song
    • Roundelay
    • A Horseman's Piece
    • Little Harvest Song
    • Souvenirs from the Theatre
    • Little Canonic Song
    • In remembrance (November 4, 1847)
    • A Stranger
    • War Song
    • Sheherazade
    • Gathering of the Grapes -- Happy Time!
    • Theme
    • Mignon
    • Italian Mariner's Song
    • Sailor's Song
    • Wintertime I
    • Wintertime II
    • Little Fugue
    • Nordic Song (A greeting to G.)
    • Figured Chorale
    • A Song for New Year's Eve
• Appendix I (Pieces from the autograph engraver's copy not taken over into print):
  • For the Smallest
  • Doll's Lullaby
  • A Drinking Song by C. M. v. Weber
  • [A Little Piece by Beethoven]
  • On the Gondola
  • [A Little Piece by Gluck]
  • Cuckoo in Hiding
  • Blind Man's Bluff
• Appendix II (Pieces from the Piano Album for Marie):
  • A Little Piece by Mozart
  • Bear Dance
  • A Little Piece by J. S. Bach
  • A Theme by G. F. Handel
  • A Famous Melody by L. van Beethoven
  • A Landler by Franz Schubert
  • Rebus
• Appendix III (Pieces from the autograph sketches):
  • [without title]
  • Venetian Lagoon
  • [without title]
• Advice to Young Musicians
• Critical Commentary