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Until 1839, Schumann had published only works for the piano; yet the year before, he had admitted to his fiancée Clara Wieck that the instrument was 'becoming too confining for me.' Then in February 1840 he wrote: 'Since yesterday morning I've written nearly 27 pages of music (something new), of which I can say only that I was laughing and crying for joy the whole time ... what bliss it is to be able to write for the voice.' Having exhausted the piano's potential, Schumann was now seeking new means of expression. Creativity continued unabated: 1840 became his miraculous 'Year of Song'. By June he had completed the Liederkreis Op.24 and the cycles Myrthen, the second Liederkreis Op.39 and Dichterliebe; Frauenliebe und -leben followed in July. There were numerous further cycles, all of them modelled on Beethoven's and Schubert's examples; often, though, Schumann would impose a sense of unity upon the different poems not through a developing story but through similarity of mood. This is particularly true of the Op.39 Liederkreis. Schumann wrote it immediately after a visit to Clara: it was, he said, 'my most romantic music ever'.

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• Full title: Schumann: Lieder
• Author: Schumann
• Language: English
• EAN: 8718247711987
• ID: 11287864
• Publisher: Newton Classics
• Weight: 100 g
• Dimensions: 120 × 140 mm
• Date of publishing: January 2013

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