ExclusiveSchumann: Schumann 3 Romances, Op. 28
【Classical music and nature 古典音樂小站】Robert Schumann: Schumann 3 Romances, Op. 28. This beautiful piece was played by Ivan Ilic. It has Creative Commons license (CC BY 3.0 DEED, Attribution 3.0 Unported) and is provided through www.musopen.org.
Robert Schumann wrote the Three Romances, op. 28, in the winter of 1839. The entire genesis of the work is marked by the excitement surrounding the imminent return of his future wife Clara Wieck to Leipzig and the increasingly tangible prospect of marrying her. Having ended his stay in Vienna a few months earlier without the desired success, Schumann developed new plans for his future life. He managed to persuade Clara Wieck to return to Paris from her concert tour so that they could finally take care of all the formalities necessary for their marriage. The enormous efforts of her father, Friedrich Wieck, to prevent the marriage, as well as his slanderous hostility towards Schumann, had taken on ever greater proportions.
But despite all the intrigues and forced separations of the young couple, Wieck was ultimately unable to persuade his daughter to break off her engagement to Schumann. In the end, the two young people, with the support of Mariane Bargiel, Clara's mother, who was divorced from Friedrich Wieck, saw no alternative but to sue their father in order to obtain his consent.
At first, Schumann wanted to dedicate his Romances, Op. 28, composed in this situation, to Clara, since she was 'the first and foremost [...] in my mind when composing', but then he wrote to her: 'But none of them is good or worthy enough for you'. Clara replied: 'But I demand the Romances; as your bride, you must dedicate something to me, and I know of nothing more tender than these three Romances, especially the middle one, which is the most beautiful love duet'. But 'the romances are really not good enough for such a girl', so Schumann dedicated them to his friend Heinrich II, Count of Reuss-Köstritz, a music lover from Erfurt, when they were published by Breitkopf & Härtel in Leipzig in 1840. Cara, however, was more than made up for by the collection of songs Myrthen op. 25, with its 'bride's dedication', which was printed shortly afterwards. Source: schumann-portal.de
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