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Robert Schumann - Symphonic Etudes, HK WoO 6, Appendix to Op. 13 (1834)

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Channel: Bartje Bartmans · 2015 · People & Blogs

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Robert Schumann (8 June 1810 – 29 July 1856) was a German composer and influential music critic. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest composers of the Romantic era. Schumann left the study of law, intending to pursue a career as a virtuoso pianist. He had been assured by his teacher Friedrich Wieck that he could become the finest pianist in Europe, but a hand injury ended this dream. Schumann then focused his musical energies on composing.

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Symphonic Etudes, HK WoO 6, Appendix to Op. 13 (1834)
Variations on a theme by Baron von Fricken

Variation I – Andante, Tempo del tema
Variation II – Meno mosso
Variation III – Allegro
Variation IV – Allegretto
Variation V – Moderato.

François-René Duchâble, piano

In 1861, five years after Schumann's death, his father-in-law Friedrich Wieck published a third edition under the editorial pseudonym "DAS" (an acronym for Der alte Schulmeister). This edition attempted to reconcile the differences between the earlier two, and bore both the previous titles XII Études Symphoniques and Études en forme de variations.

On republishing the set in 1890, Johannes Brahms restored the five variations that had been cut by Schumann. These are now often played, but in positions within the cycle that vary somewhat with each performance; there are now twelve variations and these five so-called "posthumous" variations which exist as a supplement.

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