Three Romances for Piano, Op. 11

Composer: SCHUMANN, Clara Wieck
  • Clara Wieck completed this set of character pieces for piano in 1839. She dedicated the set to Robert Schumann, whom she would marry in 1840. The set was published in 1840 in Vienna.1
    • The second of the three Romances had already appeared on its own in September 1839 in the Neue Zeitschrift für Musik,2 the music journal Robert had founded in 1834.3
  • A French 1862 edition of the set is entitled Trois romances sans paroles pour le piano. The “sans paroles” suggests a comparison or reference to the Mendelssohnian genre of “songs without words” (Lieder ohne Worte). 

Sources

  1. “3 Romances, Op. 11 (Schumann, Clara),” IMSLP, accessed October 13, 2021, https://imslp.org/wiki/3_Romances%2C_Op.11_(Schumann%2C_Clara). 
  2. Janina Klassen, preface to Clara Wieck Schumann, Selected Piano Works, ed. Klassen (Munich: G. Henle, 1986), v.
  3. A. Walker, “Musical criticism,” Encyclopedia Britannica (October 8, 1998),  accessed October 13, 2021, https://www.britannica.com/topic/musical-criticism. 

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