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MUSIC - ROBERT SCHUMANN Autograph fragmentary sketches of three duets from the "Mädchenlieder'' Op.103, for two sopranos and piano, [May 1851] image 1
MUSIC - ROBERT SCHUMANN Autograph fragmentary sketches of three duets from the "Mädchenlieder'' Op.103, for two sopranos and piano, [May 1851] image 2
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MUSIC - ROBERT SCHUMANN
Autograph fragmentary sketches of three duets from the "Mädchenlieder'' Op.103, for two sopranos and piano, [May 1851]

1 December 2021, 12:00 GMT
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MUSIC - ROBERT SCHUMANN

Autograph fragmentary sketches of three duets from the "Mädchenlieder'' Op.103, for two sopranos and piano, comprising the final two bars of "Mailied" (no.1), the title only of "Frühlingslied'' (no.2); and seven bars (13-19) of "An die Nachtigall" (no.3), ("...recht, so brauset minder jetzt der Bach, da hier Stille hauset, lässt sein Toben [nach]...''); written in brown-black ink on three staves on each page, with a few written instructions, deletions, corrections and alterations, 2 pages, irregularly cut from a larger sheet, c.60 x 270mm., including the margins of an otherwise missing conjunct leaf, creased along central fold, framed and glazed, overall size 165 x 365mm., [May 1851]

Footnotes

Schumann composed these duets in Düsseldorf in May 1851 and they were published as part of his Op.103 towards the end of the same year. Both this and the Op.104 solo songs are settings of poems by Elisabeth Kulmann (1808-1825), an astonishing child prodigy, whose output includes thousands of verses in German, Russian and Italian. Schumann mined the text of the recently published sixth edition of her poems to provide the songs in Op. 103 and Op. 104.

No complete autograph survives.

Reference: McCorkle I b, p.444.

Provenance: Heinrich Hinterberger, catalogue 20, Vienna, 1920, no. 483, the sale containing parts of the collections of Stefan Zweig and Hugo Riesenfeld; Adolf and Flora Hess; Maud Emma Hess (1902-1997) and by descent.

We are grateful to Stephen Roe for his assistance in cataloguing this lot.

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