Liebesfruhling - Songs and Duets by Robert & Clara Schumann
Sheet Music

SKU: NX.PH-292036

By Jozef de Beenhouwer, Liesbeth Devos, and Peter Gijsbertsen. By Clara Wieck-Schumann and Robert Schumann. Classical. CD. Naxos #PH 292036. Published by Naxos (NX.PH-292036).

The heart of this album is Liebesfruhling, a sizeable series of love poems by Friedrich Ruckert. When Clara had offered Robert her first three songs, set to poems by Heinrich Heine, as a Christmas present, Robert conceived the plan to composer a volume of songs together with Clara. But the plan was changed in January, 1841. He himself composed six songs and three duets on Ruckert texts, and Clara took his example and surprised him on his birthday in June with four songs. Their shared opus was published in the same year as Zwolf Gedichte aus Fr. Ruckert's Liebesfruhling fur Gesang und Pianoforte von Robert und Clara Schumann. In addition, this album features duets and songs by Robert Schumann and Clara Schumann's superb Sechs Lieder, Op. 13.