Fantasiestücke op.12 (Schumann)

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Robena Anne Laidlaw

The eight Fantasy Pieces op. 12 form a piano cycle by Robert Schumann . Schumann composed the pieces in the spring of 1837 . The title is inspired by ETA Hoffmann's collection of fantasy pieces in Callot's manner and thus also by Novalis ' concept of fantasy. The cycle is dedicated to Robena Anne Laidlaw (1819–1901), a Scottish pianist who was a student of Henri Herz and Ludwig Berger . Schumann was in brief contact with her, as can be found in Schumann's correspondence with her and Clara Wieck, as well as Schumann's diary entries.

Sentence names

The Fantasiestücke Op. 12 are Schumann's first piano cycle, the movements of which bear poetic, programmatic headings throughout. Schumann has pointed out several times that he only added titles of this kind after the composition was complete. So it's not program music .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Silvio Vietta: The fantasy concept of early romanticism and its prerequisites in the Enlightenment. In: The literary early romanticism . Göttingen 1983, pp. 208-220.
  2. ↑ Nicolas Slonimsky (Ed.): Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians. 5th edition, New York 1958, p. 897
  3. ↑ Annie Wilson Patterson: Schumann. 1908, Reprint 2008, pp. 105–117 Google Books , accessed on November 13, 2009
  4. ^ Friedrich Gustav Jansen: Robert Schumann and Robena Laidlaw. In: The border messengers . 54/4, 1895. pp. 320-332
  5. ↑ Maurice Hinson: Robert Schumann Fantasiestücke (Fantasy Pieces) op.12 . Alfred Pub Co Inc 1992, pp. 3f

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