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Clara Schumann- Published Works

Titles given as they appear on the title pages of the first editions.

Op. 1. QUATRE POLONOISES pour le Pianoforte Composed: 1830.

Published: Leipzig: Hofmeister, February 1831.

Op. 2. CAPRICES en forme de Valse Pour le Piano

Composed: 1831-1832.

Published: Paris: Stoepel: Leipzig: Hofmeister, 1832.

Dedication: Madame Henriette Foerster, née Weicke.

 

Op. 3. ROMANCE varié Pour le Piano

Composed: 1833.

Published: Leipzig: Hofmeister; Paris: Richault, Summer 1833.

Dedication MONSIEUR ROBERT SCHUMANN

 

Op. 4. VALSES ROMANTIQUES pour le Piano

Composed: 1835.

Published: Leipzig: Whistling, 1835.

Dedication: Madame Emma Eggers née Garlichs

 

Op. 5. QUATRE Pièces caractéristiques. (order sheet music)

 No. 1, Le Sabbat

 No. 2, Caprice á la Boléro

No. 3, Romance

No. 4, Ballet des Revenants

Composed: 1835.

Published: Leipzig: Whistling, 1835 or 1836 with op. 6 as Soirées musicales. 10 PIÉCES CARACTÉRISTIQUES, (Leipzig: Hofmeister, 1838).

Dedication: Mademoiselle Sophie Kaskel.

 

Op. 6. Soirées Musicales contenant Toccatina, Ballade, Nocturne, Polonaise et deux Mazurkas

Composed: 1836.

Published: Leipzig: Hofmeister; Paris: Richault, October 1836.

Dedication: Madame Henriette Voigt.

 

Op. 7. Premier CONCERT Pour le Piano-Forte avec accompagnement d' Orchestre (ou de Quintour)

Composed: 1833-1835

Published: Leipzig: Hofmeister; Paris: Richault; Hamburg: A. Cranz, 1837.

Dedication: Monsieur Louis Spohr.

 

Op. 8. VARIATIONS de Concert pour le PIANO-FORTE, sur la Cavatine du Pirate, de Bellini

Composed: 1837.

Published: Vienna: Haslinger, October 1837.

Dedication: Monsieur Adolph Henselt.

 

Op. 9. Souvenir de Vienne. Impromptu.

Composed: 1838.

Published: Vienna: Diabelli, [1838].

 

Op. 10. SCHERZO pour le Pianoforte

Composed: Probably 1838.

Published: Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel; Paris: Schonenberger, c. 1838.

 

Op. 11. Trois ROMANCES pour le PIANO

Composed: 1839.

Published: Vienna: Mechetti; Paris: Richault, 1840.

Dedication: Monsieur Robert Schumann.

 

Op. 12. ZWÖLF GEDICHTE aus F. Rückert's Liebesfrühling für Gesang und pianoforte von ROBERT UND CLARA SCHUMANN

Three songs by Clara Schumann:

no. 2, "Er ist gekommen";
no. 4, "Liebst du um Schönheit";
no. 11, "Warum willst du And're fragen?"

Composed: June 8th, 1841.

Published: (in two parts, as op. 37/12): Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, 1841.

 

Op. 13. SECHS LIEDER mit Begleitung des Pianoforte

Composed:

No. 1, "Ich stand in dunkeln Träumen" (text by Heinrich Heine), Christmas 1840.

No. 2, "Sie liebten sich Beide" (text by Heinrich Heine), June 8th, 1842.

No. 3, "Liebeszauber" ("Die Liebe sass als Nachtigall," text by Emanuel Geibel), June 8th 1842.

No. 4, "Der Mond kommt still gegangen" (text by Emanuel Geibel), July 1842.

No. 5, "Ich hab'in deinem Auge" (text by Friedrich Rückert), June 1843.

No. 6, "Die stille Lotosblume" (text by Emanuel Geibel), July 1842.

Published: Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, c. 1843.

Dedication: Queen Caroline Amalie of Denmark.

 

Op. 14. Deuxième SCHERZO pour le Pianoforte

Composed: After 1840.

Published: Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, c. 1843.

Dedication: Queen Caroline Amalie of Denmark.

 

Op. 15. Quatre pièces FUGITIVES pour le Pianoforte

Composed: Probably 1840-1844.

Published: Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, 1845.

Dedication: Marie Wieck.

 

Op. 16. III Praeludien und Fugen für das Pianoforte

Composed: 1845.

Published: Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, 1845.

 

Op. 17. TRIO für Pianoforte, Violine und Violoncello

Composed: 1846

Published: Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, 1847.

 

Op. 20. VARIATIONEN für das Pianoforte über ein Thema von Robert Schumann.

Composed: June 1853.

Published: Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, 1854.

Dedication: Robert Schumann.

 

Op. 21. DREI ROMANZEN für Pianoforte

Composed: 1853.

Published: Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, 1855 or 1856.

Dedication: Johannes Brahms.

 

Op. 22. DREI ROMANZEN für Pianoforte und Violine

Composed: 1853.

Published: Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, 1855 or 1856.

Dedication: Joseph Joachim.

 

Op. 23. SECHS LIEDER aus Jucunde von Hermann Rollet

Composed:

No. 1, "Was weinst du, Blümlein?" June 9th, 1853.

No. 2, "An einem lichten Morgen," June 13th 1853.

No. 3, Geheimes Flüstern," June 10th, 1853.

No. 4, "Auf einem grünen Hügel," June 16th, 1853.

No. 5, "Das ist ein Tag," June 21st, 1853.

No. 6, "O Lust, O Lust," June 19th 1853.

Published: Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, 1855 or 1856.

Dedication: Livia Frege.

PUBLISHED WORKS WITHOUT OPUS NUMBERS

Walzer für Gesang und Klavier. Text by Johann Peter Lyser.

Composed: 1834?

Published: In Lyser's Liedersammlung (1834).

 

Am Strande (also published as "Am Strand"). Text by Robert Burns.

Composed: Christmas 1840.

Published: Neue Zeitung für Musik, 14(July 1841), suppl; Leipzig: Schuberth, 1867 or 1868.

 

Mein Stern ("O du mein Stern"). Text by Friederike Serre.

Composed: June 1846.

Published (as "O Thou My Star"): London: Wessell: 1848.

 

Impromptu

Composed: ca. 1844.

Published: in Album du Gaulois (Paris, 1885) (anthology of piano works by eminent composers published by the journal Le Gaulois).

 

Romanze für Clavier

Composed: April 2nd, 1855?

Published: In Clara Schumann, Romantische Klaviermusik, ed. Franzpeter Goebels, vol. 2 (Heidelberg: Willy Müller, 1977); Clara Schumann, Drei kleine Klavierstücke, ed. Rosario Marciano, Diletto Musicale no. 812 (Vienna: Doblinger, 1979).

CADENZAS

Cadenzas (2) for Beethoven Piano Concerto in G Major, op. 58

Composed: 1846.

Published: Leipzig: Rieter-Biedermann, c. 1870.

 

Cadenza for Beethoven Piano Concerto in C minor, op. 37

Composed: 1868.

Published Leipzig: Rieter-Biedermann, c. 1870.

 

Cadenzas (2) for Mozart Piano Concerto in D Minor (K. 466)

Composed: Unknown.

Published: Leipzig: Rieter-Biedermann, c. 1891.

 

UNPUBLISHED WORKS

Songs for Voice and Piano

Der Abendstern. Text by?

Composed?

 

Volkslied (Es fiel ein Reif in der Frühlingsnacht"). Text by Heinrich Heine.

Composed: Christmas 1840.

 

Die gute Nacht. Text by Friedrich Rückert.

Composed: June 8th, 1841.

 

Loreley ("Ich weiss' nicht was soll es bedeuten"). Text by Heinrich Heine.

Composed: June 8th, 1843.

 

O weh des Scheidens. Text by Friedrich Rückert.

Composed: June 1843.

 

Beim Abschied (Letzten Abschied). Text by Friederike Serre.

Composed: June 1846.

 

Drei gemischte Chöre: "Abendfeyer in Venedig," "Vorwärts," "Goldoliera." Text by Emanuel Geibel.

Composed: 1848.

 

Choral Works

Das Veilchen ("Ein Veilchen auf der Wiese stand"). Text by Johann von Goethe.

Composed: July 7th, 1853.

 

Works for Piano

Etude

Composed: Presumably early 1830s.

 

Sonatine: Allegro, Scherzo, Adagio, Rondo

Composed: First two movements, 1841; last two movements, probably January 1842.

 

Concerto (one incomplete movement only)

Composed: 1847.

 

Romanze (A minor)

Composed: July 1853.

 

Marsch

Composed: 1879

 

Vorspiele

Composed: Improvisations written out probably in 1895.

 

Präludium and Präludien für Schüler

Composed: Improvisations written out probably in 1895.

 

Lost works

Alte Heimath. Text by Justinius Kerner.

Composed: 1831.

Comments: A performance on December 13th, 1831 is mentioned in Clara Schumann's diary.

 

Der Traum. Text by Christoph August Tiedge

Composed: 1831.

Comments: The song is noted in Clara Schumann's diary, December 13th, 1831.

 

Der Wanderer. Text by Justinius Kerner.

Composed: 1831.

Comments: A performance on December 13th, 1831, is mentioned in Clara Schumann's diary.

 

Works for Piano

Variationen über ein Original thema

Composed; 1830.

Comments: A performance on November 8th, 1830, of a work with this title is noted in Clara Schumann's diary. Litzmann includes it in Clara's Repertoire List for 1830.

 

Variationen über ein Tyrolerlied

Composed: 1830.

Comments: A performance of a work called simply "Variationen für Clavier" on October 9th, 1831, is noted in Clara Schumann's diary. Litzmann includes it in her Repertoire List for 1830.

 

Phantasie-Variationen über ein Wieck Romanze

Composed: 1831.

Comments: A performance of this work on October 26th, 1831, is noted in Clara Schumann's diary. The "Wieck Romanze" was probably the work for "physharmonica" which was featured on several of her programs between 1830 and 1832.

 

An Alexis

Composed: 1832.

Comments: In a letter of January 27th, 1832, Wieck wrote that Clara was composing variations "An Alexis" for performance in Paris (Wieck, Briefe, 41). The work is also mentioned by Litzmann, 1:57, as one of a group of smaller works for piano on which she worked in the summer of 1833.

 

Rondo in H moll

Composed: 1833.

Comments: The completion of a rondo on a theme by Carl Reissiger is mentioned in Clara Schumann's diary on June 6th, 1833.

Works for Orchestra

Scherzo für Orchestra

Composed: c.1830-1831.

Comments: A performance of this work on May 18th, 1831, is noted in Clara Schumann's diary.

 

Note: Several other works are mentioned briefly in the diary in the years 1828-1838. Because they are cited in such general terms as "a waltz," "a Scherzo," "lieder," it has not been possible to identify them.

03/08/08

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