Schumann: Myrthen, op. 25 - Liederkreis (Medium Voice, Piano)

• Level of difficulty: medium


• The only single Urtext edition of the cycle


• Edition for middle voice: with 2 transpositions for No. 15 from the ‘Hebräischen Gesängen’


• For chords that have become unplayable due to transposition, help is provided in the footnotes.

1840 was Schumann’s famous “year of song” that brought forth over 100 lieder. They included Myrthen op. 25, which he dedicated “to his dear bride”, Clara Wieck-Schumann. Besides famous songs such as “Widmung”, “Lotosblume” and “Nussbaum” to texts by German poets, the collection also saw Schumann venture further afield, whether to the Scottish Highlands with settings of Robert Burns or to Italy for the “Venetian Songs” of Thomas Moore. Schumann specialist Kazuko Ozawa has examined the first edition of 1840 and all the manuscript sources. Among the dedicatory autograph copies she has also discovered interesting early versions of individual songs that are here published in an appendix. The edition medium voice presented here was created in collaboration with the experienced pianist and Lied accompanist Jan Philip Schulze – to make the famous cycle accessible to a wider circle of singers.

Kazuko Ozawa (Editor)
Medium voice, Urtext Edition, paperbound
Format: Size 21,0 x 29,7 cm

Content:
Widmung op. 25,1
Freisinn op. 25,2
Der Nussbaum op. 25,3
Jemand op. 25,4
2 Lieder aus dem Schenkenbuch im Divan op. 25,5-6
Die Lotosblume op. 25,7
Talismane op. 25,8
Lied der Suleika op. 25,9
Die Hochländer-Witwe op. 25,10
2 Lieder der Braut aus dem Liebesfrühling op. 25,11–12
Hochländers Abschied op. 25,13
Hochländisches Wiegenlied op. 25,14
Aus den hebräischen Gesängen op. 25,15
Räthsel op. 25,16
Zwei Venetianische Lieder op. 25,17-18
Hauptmanns Weib op. 25,19
Weit, weit! op. 25,20
Was will die einsame Träne op. 25,21
Niemand op. 25,22
Im Westen op. 25,23
Du bist wie eine Blume op. 25,24
Aus den östlichen Rosen op. 25,25
Zum Schluss op. 25,26
Appendix
Weit, weit! Frühfassung in der Neuen Zeitschrift für Musik
Du bist wie eine Blume Frühfassung für Elisa Meerti
Du bist wie eine Blume Frühfassung für Clara Wieck