Cello and piano
SKU:
BR.EB-32083
Urtext. Composed
by Camillo Schumann.
Edited by Maria Kliegel.
Solo instruments;
stapled. Edition
Breitkopf.
With
supplementary violoncello
part marked by Maria
Kliegel
Sonata;
Late-romantic. Score. 108
pages. Breitkopf and
Haertel #EB 32083.
Published by Breitkopf
and Haertel
(BR.EB-32083).
ISBN
9790004186299. 9 x 12
inches.
There are
many composers about whom
it is believed, today,
that they composed
conservatively, or
against the taste of
their time. The question
is also raised, today,
which extract of this
large amount of effective
and high-quality music,
unknown for the most
part, should receive our
attention; which of it is
worth rediscovering or
re-editing. Camillo
Schumann is one of the
most important
representatives of these
composers, but his works
are still largely unknown
today. He was born on 10
March 1872 in Konigstein,
Saxony. His musical
language combines the
sound world of Brahms
with the grand,
late-romantic Liszt
School. He wrote piano
parts of incredible power
and virtuosity,
approaching the sounds of
Rachmaninoff. His
wonderfully individual
melodic language makes
these works a valuable
testimony to a composer
who never had his due
recognition. The cello
sonatas Opp. 59 (EB
32082) and 99 (EB 32083)
are the first of three
works for this
combination. Op. 59 was
composed around 1905/06,
Op. 99 followed in 1932.
Nothing is known so far
of the circumstances of
the composition of this
work, including for whom
it was composed. However,
it is quite evident that
Schumann wrote it, like
most of his works,
primarily for his own
concerts and befriended
musicians. The extensive
entries in the piano part
bear witness to a
considerably practical
approach. Crossed-out
bars, notes added or
crossed out in chords as
well as a number of
revisions of other kinds
are more the rule than
the exception. The
composer's own fingerings
written in the piano part
also underline this
assumption. The present
edition contains two
solo-parts each. One
clean Urtext-part free of
any additions from the
editor and a second one
with bowing marks and
fingerings by Maria
Kliegel who recorded both
sonatas for the first
time with the label
Naxos. Both sonatas show
evident resemblance to
the works of this
combination by Johannes
Brahms and are therefore
a must have for ambitious
cellists.
With
supplementary violoncello
part marked by Maria
Kliegel.
