“To send light into the darkness of men’s hearts, such is the duty of the artist.”
Robert Schumann (1810-1856) was one of the most important composers of his time. Together with his wife Clara Schumann, he was at the forefront of the creative community, not only as a composer and musician, but also as a highly esteemed writer. Browse our sheet music and scores, and discover everything from Dichterliebe to Schumann’s Symphonies today.
Robert Schumann was a multi-talented man. He studied law in Leipzig and Heidelberg, he was a famous pianist, composer and conductor, and he also worked as a writer and journalist. The Neue Zeitschrift für Musik, which he co-founded and published, is still very successful today.
Despite being coined Europe’s next star pianist, a repetitive strain injury made Schumann turn all his efforts to composition. His works number over 140 compositions, and his most popular pieces include Dichterliebe, Schumann’s Rheinische Symphony, Schumann’s Scenes from Childhood, the Album for the Young, the Piano Concerto in A minor by Schumann, the Schumann’s Violin Concerto in D minor, and the Piano Quintet in E flat Major by Schumann.
Schumann was close friends with Johannes Brahms, and he greatly admired Frédéric Chopin. Despite the fact that Franz Liszt admired Schumann’s expressive, poetic and progressive music, the feelings were not reciprocated, and Schumann chose to steer clear of the programmatic style which defined much of Liszt’s work.
Towards the end of his life, Schumann’s mental health deteriorated, and he spent his last years in a sanitorium near Bonn. Johannes Brahms visited him there many, many times until he passed away. His wife Clara outlived him by 40 years.
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Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
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Music score (Urtext edition)
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Piano score, parts (Urtext edition)
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Piano score, solo part
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Based on the Sources
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Piano score, solo part
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Based on the Sources
Wiener Urtext Edition
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Piano score, solo part
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contains the unsigned solo part as well as the solo part arranged and annotated by Heinrich Schiff
Breitkopf Urtext Edition
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Piano score, solo part (Urtext edition)
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für Gesang und Klavier
Original-Ausgabe für Hohe Stimme
Lieder in 3 Bänden, Urtext, Band 1 (Sammelband, Urtextausgabe) (Collection, Urtext)
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Music score
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for Piano and Clarinet
Version for Violoncello
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Urtext
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Piano score, solo part (Urtext edition)
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Version of 1851
Urtext
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Score (Urtext edition)
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Music score
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Urtext
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Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
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Urtext Primo – A new concept for the beginner
Edition with German and English Commentary
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Music score (Urtext edition)
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for: Oboe [flute], piano
Piano score, solo part
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for voice and chamber orchestra
Hawkes Pocket Scores HPS 1562
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Study score
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Music score
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Ensemble score
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Eine psychoanalytische Annäherung
Book (softcover)
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Original-Ausgabe für Hohe Stimme
Lieder in 3 Bänden, Urtext, Band 3 (Sammelband, Urtextausgabe) (Collection, Urtext)
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Music score
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for: Flute, oboe, clarinet, horn, bassoon (wind quintet)
Set of parts
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Wiener Urtext Edition
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Music score
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Choir score (Urtext edition)
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Piano score, solo part, audio file
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6 Volumes in a Slipcase
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6 Study scores (Urtext edition)
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"Spring Symphony"
Urtext
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Score (Urtext edition)
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Song Cycle on Poems by Heine
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Music score (Urtext edition)
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Henle Urtext Editions
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Piano score, solo part (Urtext edition)
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Original Version
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Piano score, solo part (Urtext edition)
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Music score (Urtext edition)
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for viola and piano
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Piano score, solo part
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Violinkonzert (Urtextausgabe) (Urtext)
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Study score (Urtext edition)
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Edited from the source
Wiener Urtext Edition
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Music score
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Music score (Urtext edition)
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Piano reduction, solo part
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Music score (Urtext edition)
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Music score (Urtext edition)
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Piano reduction
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op. 56
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Music score
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Piano score
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Wiener Urtext Edition
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Music score
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Score (Urtext edition)
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gleichzeitig auch Material zu Violinkonzertfassung (Urtextausgabe) (Urtext)
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Study score
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30 Transcriptions for Guitar
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Music score
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First Version of 1841
Urtext
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Study score (Urtext edition)
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for: Piano, clarinet [violin], viola
Set of parts
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