Cello Concerto in A minor Op. 129 (Orig. Version) (Edition for Cello and Piano) Concertstück by Robert Schumann Piano Accompaniment - Sheet Music

SKU: PE.EP73488

ISBN 9790577020372. 232 x 303 mm inches. English.

Schumann's Cello Concerto Rediscovered

In her first Urtext edition for Edition Peters, internationally renowned cellist Josephine Knight reveals Robert Schumann's original version of his Cello Concerto in A minor Op. 129 - a piece he actually called a 'Concertstück' - removing generations of inauthentic editorial interventions. This is the only available modern scholarly edition of the work as Schumann originally conceived it, and restores the text from October 1850, based on the composer's manuscript held in the Biblioteka Jagiellonska in Kraków. It is presented in a beautifully printed edition for cello with Schumann's original piano reduction. Matching orchestral material is also available from the publisher.

• Only modern Urtext edition based on Schumann's original 1850 manuscript
• Many new corrections and clarifications, especially to the cello part
• Scholarly preface detailing history of the work and this edition by editor Josephine Knight, Piatti Professor of Cello at the Royal Academy of Music London
• Cello Part contains Josephine Knight's fingering and bowing suggestions
• Critical Commentary
• Matching orchestral material available separately from Edition Peters
• Recording of the Concertstück featuring Josephine Knight available from Dutton

Robert Schumann's tragic last years have mired many of his greatest works in unnecessary doubt. The story of the suppression of his Violin Concerto by well-meaning friends is relatively well-known. Few, however, know that the version of the Cello Concerto that is routinely heard today is so far from Schumann's original conception of the work - not only in details of phrasing and articulation, but also featuring a different ending with a bold final flourish from the cello. Composed in a burst of inspiration in two weeks in October 1850 shortly after he and Clara had moved to Düsseldorf, Schumann (who in 1850 was still in good health) never hea.