Schumann, R.: Works For Oboe And Piano

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Cat No: 8550599

Release Date: 12 January 1999

Label: Naxos - Nxc / Naxos Classics

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Barcode: 4891030505995

Genres: Classical

Composer/Series: SCHUMANN, R.

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Robert Schumann (1810 - 1856) Works for Oboe and Piano Five Folk-Song Pieces, Op. 102 Fantasy Pieces, Op. 73 Three Romances, Op. 94 Sonata in A Minor, Op. 105Robert Schumann must seem in many waystypical of the age in which he lived, combining a number of the principal characteristicsof Romanticism in his music and in his life. Born in Zwickau in 1810, the son of abookseller, publisher and writer, he showed an early interest in literature and later madea name for himself as a writer and editor of the NeueZeitschrift f??r Musik, a journal launched in 1834. After a period atuniversity to satisfy the ambitions of his widowed mother, but still showing the wideinterests of a dilettante, Schumann was able to turn more fully to music under the tuitionof Friedrich Wieck, a famous teacher, whose energies had been largely directed towards thetraining of his beloved daughter Clara, a pianist of prodigious early talent. Schumann's own ambitions as a pianistwere to be frustrated by a weakness of the fingers, the result, it is supposed, of mercurytreatment for syphilis, which he perhaps had contracted from a servant-girl in Wieck'semployment. Nevertheless he wrote a great deal of music for the piano during the 1830s,much of it in the form of shorter genre pieces, often enough with some extra- musical,literary or autobiographical association. The end of the decade brought a prolongedquarrel with Wieck, who did his utmost, through the courts, to prevent his daughter frommarrying Schumann, bringing in support evidence of the latter's allegedly dissolute way oflife. He might have considered, too, a certain mental instability, perhaps in partinherited, which brought periods of intense depression.In 1840 Schumann and Clara married,with the permission of the court. The year brought the composition of a large number ofsongs and was followed by a period during which Clara encouraged her husband to tacklelarger forms of orchestral music, while both of them had to make adjustments in their ownlives to accommodate their differing professional requirements and the birth of children.A relatively short period in Leipzig was followed, in 1844, by residence in Dresden, whereWagner was now installed at the Court Theatre, his conversation causing Schumann to retireearly to bed with a headache. In 1850 the couple moved to D??sseldorf, where Schumann hadbeen appointed director of music, a fact that contributed to his suicidal depression andfinal break-down in 1854, leading to his death in the asylum at Endenich two years later.The FivePieces in Folk-Song Style, Opus 102, were written in 1849 for cello or violinand piano and were published two years later. Strangely the disturbing political events inthat year in Dresden, which had forced Wagner to make his escape in disguise, seem to havebrought Schumann a surge of inspiration, leading him to describe the year as his mostproductive. The pieces are true to their title, the first of them, Vanitas vanitatum, making in its title a whim
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