Schubert: Arpeggione Sonata / Schumann: Fantasiestucke

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Cat No: 8550654

Release Date: 12 January 1999

Label: Naxos - Nxc / Naxos Classics

Packaging Type: Jewel Case

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Barcode: 4891030506541

Genres: Classical

Composer/Series: SCHUBERT

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Robert Schumann (1810 - 1856)Fantasiest??cke Op. 73 Five Pieces in Folk-Song Style Op. 102 Adagio und allegro Op.70 Franz Schubert (1797 - 1828) Sonata in A minor for arpeggione and piano, D. 821Robert Schumann must seem in many ways typical of the age inwhich he lived, combining a number of the principal characteristics of Romanticism in hismusic and in his life. Born in Zwickau in 1810, the son of a bookseller, publisher andwriter, he showed an early interest in literature and later made a name for himself as awriter and editor of the Neue Zeitschrifl f??r Musik,a journal launched in 1834. After a period at university to satisfy the ambitions of hiswidowed mother, but still showing the wide interests of a dilettante, Schumann was able toturn more fully to music under the tuition of Friedrich Wieck, a famous teacher, whoseenergies had been largely directed towards the training of his beloved daughter Clara, apianist of prodigious early talent.Schumann's own ambitions as a pianist were to be frustrated bya weakness of the fingers, the result, it is supposed, of mercury treatment for syphilis,which he perhaps had contracted from a servant-girl in Wieck's employment. Nevertheless hewrote a great deal of music for the piano during the 1830s, much of it in the form ofshorter genre pieces, often enough with some extra- musical, literary or autobiographicalassociation. The end of the decade brought a prolonged quarrel with Wieck, who did hisutmost, through the courts, to prevent his daughter from marrying Schumann, bringing insupport evidence of the latter's allegedly dissolute way of life. He might haveconsidered, too, a certain mental instability, perhaps in part inherited, which broughtperiods of intense depression.In 1840 Schumann and Clara married, with the permission of thecourt. The year brought the composition of a large number of songs and was followed by aperiod during which Clara encouraged her husband to tackle larger forms of orchestralmusic, while both of them had to make adjustments in their own lives to accommodate theirdiffering professional requirements and the birth of children. A relatively short periodin Leipzig was followed, in 1844, by residence in Dresden, where Wagner was now installedat the Court Theatre, his conversation causing Schumann to retire early to bed with aheadache. In 1850 the couple moved to D??sseldorf, where Schumann had been appointeddirector of music, a position the demands of which he was unable to meet, a fact thatcontributed to his suicidal depression and final break-down in 1854, leading to his deathin the asylum at Endenich two years later.The Fantasiest??cke, Opus 73,originally Soireest??cke, were written in1849, for clarinet and piano, with the option of violin or cello. Strangely the disturbingpolitical events of that year in Dresden, which had forced Wagner to make his escape indisguise, seem to have brought Schumann a surge of inspiration, leading him to describethe year as his most productive. He me
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