The ups and downs of disappointed love: who could fail to sympathize with the feelings that Schumann immortalized in his song cycle Dichterliebe after Heine? The pieces range from hopeful anticipation (''Im wundersch÷nen Monat Mai'') to solitary grief (''Und wŘssten's die Blumen, die kleinen'') and bitter sarcasm (''Die alten b÷sen Lieder''). Schumann knew what he was writing about: the cycle originated in the year of his marriage to Clara Wieck, an event that took place only after years of struggle. Originally the sixteen-piece cycle was meant to include twenty lieder. Our volume reproduces the four discarded numbers in an appendix.?