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Schumann, Robert: Night Pieces op. 23

(Boetticher, Wolfgang)

Setting: Piano
Period: Romantic
Length: 29 pages
Weight: 0.142 kg
Publisher: G. Henle Verlag
Item number: HN0104
Other reference: HN 104
ISMN: 9790201801049
Gloomy premonitions plagued Schumann whilst he was working on his latest composition in 1839. The news that his brother Eduard was dying had deeply shaken him. ''Writing a ĹCorpse Fantasy' since Monday,'' he wrote in his diary on 31 March. While he was preparing the composition for publication three-quarters of a year later, he chose the title ''Night Pieces'' with reference to E. T. A. Hoffmann. However, Schumann probably did not want the work to be perceived as being so nocturnal and dark, because he associated with it the desire that it should ''pleasantly remind'' one of his brother, who had in the meantime died. We are now publishing it in a newly revised version by Ernst Herttrich reflecting the latest in scholarly research.?
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