Album sheet

The album page (fr. Feuille d'album , engl. Album leaf ) is a musical character piece .

Originally intended as an entry in an album or family book , the album sheet developed in the middle of the 19th century into an independent designation for mostly short compositions in free form , mainly intended for the piano . Probably the first important composer to use the term directly as the title of a work was Franz Liszt, whereas the works by Beethoven and Mendelssohn that had previously been written were only posthumously referred to as "album sheets".

Examples of an album sheet are:

• Ludwig van Beethoven , album sheet Für Elise (created 1810, published 1867)
• Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy , album sheet in E minor , op.117 (created around 1836, published in 1872)
• Franz Liszt , Feuille d'album , p. 165 (created in 1841, published in 1844)
• Robert Schumann , Album Blätter op. 124 (1853) and op. 99 No. 4–8 (from the Colorful Leaves , 1851)
• Theodor Kirchner , album sheets for piano op.7 (1856)
• Richard Wagner , Arrival at the Black Swans - Album sheet in A flat major for piano (1861)
• Max Reger , album sheet for piano op.58 no.1 and album sheet for violin and piano op.87 no.1
• Alexander Scriabin , Feuillet d'album op.58
• Ferruccio Busoni , album sheet for flute and piano (1917)

literature

• Carl Dahlhaus and Hans Heinrich Eggebrecht (eds.), Brockhaus Riemann Musiklexikon , Volume 1, Mainz: Schott, Munich: Piper, 3rd edition 1989, ISBN 3-7957-8301-1
• Hans-Rudolf Wiedemann , Letters and Album Pages by Great Composers and Interpreters in Manuscripts , Lübeck 1990, ISBN 3-925402-27-6