Robert Schumann, sometimes known as Robert Alexander
Schumann, was a German composer, aesthete and
influential music critic. He is regarded as one of the
greatest and most representative composers of the
Romantic era.
The Fantasie in C major, Op. 17, was written by Robert
Schumann in 1836. It was revised prior to publication
in 1839, when it was dedicated to Franz Liszt. It is
generally described as one of Schumann's greatest works
for solo piano, and is one of the central works of the...(+)
Robert Schumann, sometimes known as Robert Alexander
Schumann, was a German composer, aesthete and
influential music critic. He is regarded as one of the
greatest and most representative composers of the
Romantic era.
The Fantasie in C major, Op. 17, was written by Robert
Schumann in 1836. It was revised prior to publication
in 1839, when it was dedicated to Franz Liszt. It is
generally described as one of Schumann's greatest works
for solo piano, and is one of the central works of the
early Romantic period. It is often called by the
Italian version, Fantasia; the word "Fantasie" is the
German spelling.
The piece has its origin in early 1836, when Schumann
composed a piece entitled Ruines expressing his
distress at being parted from his beloved Clara Wieck
(later to become his wife). This later became the first
movement of the Fantasy. Later that year, he wrote two
more movements to create a work intended as a
contribution to the appeal for funds to erect a
monument to Beethoven in his birthplace, Bonn. Schumann
offered the work to the publisher Kirstner, suggesting
that 100 presentation copies could be sold to raise
money for the monument. Other contributions to the
Beethoven monument fund included Mendelssohn's
Variations sérieuses.
Although originally written for Piano, I created this
arrangement of the Rondo (second movement) for solo
Concert (Pedal) Harp.
