Piano Sonata in g minor

Composer: SCHUMANN, Clara Wieck
  • Clara Schumann composed this sonata over December of 1841 and January of 1842.1
  • Clara Schumann gave the Allegro and Scherzo of this sonata (the 1st and 3rd movements) as Christmas 1841 gifts to her husband Robert.2
  • The Scherzo was published in 1845 by Breitkopf as in Clara Schumann’s 4 pièces fugitives, Op. 15.3 The entire sonata was not published until 1991.4

Sources

  1. Nancy B. Reich and Natasha Loges, “Schumann [née Wieck], Clara,” Grove Music Online (March 29, 2021), accessed February 25, 2022, https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/view/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-90000380188. 
  2. Ibid.
  3. Clara Schumann, Vier flüchtige Stücke, Op. 15 (Berlin: Breitkopf und Härtel, 1845).
  4. Clara Schumann, Piano Sonata in G minor, ed. Gerd Neuhaus (Berlin: Breitkopf, 1991).

Cut IDs

23121