Davidsbündlertänze

The Davidsbündlertänze, Op. 6, are a two-piece, made ​​up of nine existing character pieces piano cycle by Robert Schumann. The work is dedicated Walther Wolfgang von Goethe.

Expenditure

First edition: Published in January 1838 in AR Friese, Leipzig.

Second Edition ( Revised Edition): Volume 1 was published in September, No. 2 in December 1850 by J. Schuberth & Co., Hamburg, Leipzig and New York.

Genesis

Robert Schumann wrote 19 plays, the last one remained incomplete. The work was written in the two months after his engagement to Clara Wieck on 14 August 1837. In the first piece, he quotes the motto of CW, a design from the Mazurka No. 5 from their Soirées musicales, Op 6 Across from her, he speaks wedding thoughts that he has processed in the pieces. His friend Carl Monday against but of " Todt dances, dances Veit, Graces and Goblin dances ". These contrasts are also found in the first edition again. The musical text is preceded in the following poem:

Old saying:

In each and every time Linked to pleasure and pain: If godly in lust and Seyd The suffering with courage ready

In addition, Schumann pseudonyms Florestan and Eusebius play an important role in this issue. The two characters symbolize his dual role in the fictional David Bunch, who is also the namesake for this cycle. Florestan is in the " roaring, insolent storm runners ". Eusebius forms to the opposite pole as "the gentle young man, who always comes stays in the background ." In the first edition the pieces are either overwritten with " Florestan and Eusebius " or only one of the two names. In the revised edition, both the pseudonyms and the "old saying" and the concept of dance has been deleted.

Performances

Schumann himself played the Davidsbündlertänze in the spring of 1838. The first recorded public performance of the complete cycle took place in Budapest on 15 March 1869. There Johannes Brahms played the pieces at a concert of the singer Julius Stockhausen.

Piece designations

The individual untitled pieces have the following tempo markings, keys and write-ups ( in the first edition ):

Swell

  • David Ewen, Encyclopedia of Concert Music. New York; Hill and Wang, 1959.
  • Robert Schumann Complete Piano Works, Volume I, edited by Clara Schumann, originally published by Breitkopf & Härtel.
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