Album for the youth

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The Album for the Young , op. 68 (composed in 1848), is a cycle of 43 piano pieces by Robert Schumann . In contrast to the children's scenes , many pieces in the first part are also suitable for children or beginners. The second part, from number 19 on, has the addition “For adults” and also contains more technically demanding pieces.

meaning

The album for the youth is one of the standard works for piano lessons - not least because of its diversity. The most popular is probably number 10, Happy Farmer, returning from work . Also very well known are number 8, Wilder Reiter and number 13, May, dear May .

content

The album for the youth consists of 43 individual pieces and an appendix of 30 pieces, but these were not printed during Schumann's lifetime. The symbol "⁂" denotes a title that the player should choose himself.

First department - for smaller ones

  • No. 1 melody
  • No. 2 Soldiers March. Lively and taut.
  • No. 3 little warbler songs. Not fast.
  • No. 4 Chorale - Rejoice, O my soul.
  • No. 5 pieces. Not fast.
  • No. 6 Poor orphan . Slowly.
  • No. 7 hunter's song. Fresh and happy.
  • No. 8 Wilder Reiter.
  • No. 9 folk songs. In a plaintive tone.
  • No. 10 Happy farmer, returning from work. Fresh and lively.
  • No. 11 Sicilian. Mischievous.
  • No. 12 Knecht Ruprecht.
  • No. 13 May, dear May, - you'll be back soon !. Not fast.
  • No. 14 Small study. Playing quietly and very unimportant.
  • No. 15 Spring Song. To play heartily.
  • # 16 First loss. Not fast.
  • No. 17 Little Morning Walker. Fresh and strong.
  • No. 18 Reaper's Song. Not very quickly.

Second section - For more adults

  • # 19 Little Romance. Not fast.
  • # 20 Rural Song. At a moderate pace.
  • No. 21 ⁂. To play slowly and with expression.
  • No. 22 Rundgesang. Moderate. Very bound to play.
  • No. 23 Reiterstück. Short and definite.
  • No. 24 Harvest Song. With a happy expression.
  • No. 25 echoes from the theater. Something agitated.
  • No. 26 ⁂. Not quick, pretty to perform.
  • No. 27 Canonical song. Not quickly and with heartfelt expression.
  • No. 28 Remembrance (November 4, 1847). Not fast to play and very vocal.
  • No. 29 Stranger Man. To play hard and hard.
  • No. 30 ⁂. Very slowly.
  • No. 31 war song. Very strong.
  • No. 32 Sheherazade. Pretty slowly, quietly.
  • No. 33 “Grape harvest time - happy time!” Lively.
  • Number 34 topic. Slowly. With heartfelt feeling.
  • No. 35 Mignon. Slowly, gently.
  • No. 36 Song of Italian Marinari. Slow fast.
  • No. 37 Sailor's Song. Not fast.
  • No. 38 Wintertime I. Pretty slow.
  • No. 39 Winter Time II. Slow.
  • No. 40 Small Fugue. Foreplay - fugue, lively, but not too fast.
  • No. 41 Nordic song (greetings to G.). In popular tone.
  • No. 42 figured chorale.
  • No. 43 New Year's Eve. At a moderate pace.

attachment

Musical house and life rules

The total stock comprises 74 rules, 68 of which were included in the second edition as a "text appendix".

Schumann's unpublished sentences

  • No. 1 on the gondola. Not fast.
  • No. 2 The feast is over.
  • No. 3 bear dance.
  • No. 4 Canon. Our actions and worries should be firmly in tact, pure in tone!
  • No. 5 [chorale arrangement, fragment].
  • No. 6 For the very young.
  • No. 7 [Fugue Fragment, A major].
  • No. 8 [Fugue Fragment, G minor].
  • No. 9 Gukkuk in hiding. Always very quiet.
  • No. 10 Haschemann. As soon as possible.
  • No. 11 ⁂.
  • No. 12 [Small Canon, Fragment, F major].
  • No. 13 [Little Waltz].
  • No. 14 lagoon in Venice.
  • No. 15 [left hand, should also show itself].
  • No. 16 [Preludio].
  • No. 17 puppet lullaby.
  • No. 18 Rebus.

A short course through the history of music

  • No. 19 A subject by GF Handel. To present vigorously.
  • No. 20 A piece of JS Bach. Tempo di menuetto.
  • No. 21 [A piece from Chr. W. Gluck's opera Orpheo ed Euridice],
  • No. 22 [A piece from one of the two Iphigenia operas by Chr. W. Gluck, planned].
  • No. 23 [A piece by J. Haydn (symphony), planned].
  • No. 24 A piece of Mozart. Not fast.
  • No. 25 Andante [by L. van Beethoven].
  • No. 26 A drinking song by CM von Weber. Very lively.
  • No. 27 A famous melody by L. v. Beethoven. Strong, solemn.
  • No. 28 [A piece by L. Spohr from the opera Jessonda, planned].
  • No. 29 A Länders by F. Schubert. Not fast.
  • No. 30 [A piece by F. Mendelssohn Bartholdy, planned].

literature

  • Bernhard R. Appel: Robert Schumann's "Album for the Young" - Introduction and Commentary. Atlantis, Zurich / Mainz 1998, pp. 194–200 et al.
  • Margit L. McCorkle: Robert Schumann - Thematic-Bibliographical Catalog of Works. Schott, Munich 2003 (= Robert Schumann catalog raisonné (RSW), ) pp. 290–302.
  • Gerd Nauhaus (introduction and ed.): Musical house and life rules. Facsimile with transmission and text print. Study point, Sinzig 2002.

Remarks

  1. ↑ For the text and the publication history of the rules see Wikisource .

Web links

Wikisource: Musical house and life rules  - sources and full texts
Wikiquote: Musical house and life rules  - quotations