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Robert Schumann
Forest Scenes op. 82
Epilogue: Margit L. McCorkle
98.00 $
Facsimile of the autograph, hardcover
Pages: 28 (XII, 16), Size 35,8 x 28,4 cm
Order no. HN 3217 · ISMN 979-0-2018-3217-3
Schumann’s autograph of the Waldszenen affords us an unobstructed insight into the composer’s working methods. It is namely not a final, fair version of the piano work but an autograph which bears numerous traces of the composition’s development, enabling us to reconstruct the work’s genesis. In the end the manuscript, which is always legible and beautifully written despite crossings out, changes and insertions, was even considered suitable to be used as the model for the engraving by the original publisher. Thus as well as Schumann’s numerous comments there are also notes made by the engraver. The French collector Charles Malherbe once owned the 16-page autograph, which is now in the music department of the French National Library. Schumann is within our reach in this facsimile reproduction, which truly does look extremely similar to the original, with comprehensive comments by the Canadian Schumann expert Margit L. McCorkle.
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L’interesse del manoscritto autografo riprodotto e pubblicato da Henle sta nella possibilità di rintracciarvi tutte le fasi di composizione, dall’inizio alle correzioni destinate alla stampa. … Accompagnato da un commento molto interessante di Margit L. McCorkle, il fac-simile è pubblicato da Henle in fascicolo cartonato riproducente le rilegature d’epoca …
[Giornale della Musica, 2006]
Es ist spannend, zu sehen, welche Dinge Schumann später für die Druckvorlage strich, welche Ideen er verwarf. Es ist ein lebendiges Zeugnis, das da vor uns liegt. Da kann man dem Henle-Verlag dankbar sein, dass er uns zu einem akzeptablen Preis einen solchen Einblick in den Charakter und die Arbeitsweise von Schumann gibt. Denn nicht nur für den Profi, sondern auch für den Laien ist dieser Faksimile-Druck eine Inspiration für das Spiel der „Waldszenen“.
[Piano News, 2006]