Album for the Young Op. 68, was composed by Robert Schumann

Robert Schumann

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....

 in 1848 for his three daughters. The album consists of a collection of 43 short works. Unlike the Kinderszenen

Kinderszenen

Kinderszenen , Opus 15, by Robert Schumann, is a set of thirteen pieces of music for piano written in 1838. In this work, Schumann provides us with his adult reminiscences of childhood. Schumann had originally written 30 movements for this work, but chose 13 for the final version...

, they are suitable to be played by children or beginners. The second part, starting at Nr. 19 (Kleine Romanze), is marked Für Erwachsenere (For adults; For more grown-up ones) and contains more demanding pieces.

List of pieces

1. (Melodie), C major
   C major
   C major is a musical major scale based on C, with pitches C, D, E, F, G, A, and B. Its key signature has no flats/sharps.Its relative minor is A minor, and its parallel minor is C minor....
   
   
2. Soldiers' March (Soldatenmarsch), G major
   G major
   G major is a major scale based on G, with the pitches G, A, B, C, D, E, and F. Its key signature has one sharp, F; in treble-clef key signatures, the sharp-symbol for F is usually placed on the first line from the top, though in some Baroque music it is placed on the first space from the bottom...
   
   
3. Humming Song (Trällerliedchen), C major
4. Chorale (Ein Choral), G major
5. A Little Piece (Stückchen), C major
6. The Poor Orphan (Armes Waisenkind), A minor
   A minor
   A minor is a minor scale based on A, consisting of the pitches A, B, C, D, E, F, and G. The harmonic minor scale raises the G to G...
   
   
7. Hunting Song (Jägerliedchen), F major
   F major
   F major is a musical major scale based on F, consisting of the pitches F, G, A, B, C, D, and E. Its key signature has one flat . It is by far the oldest key signature with an accidental, predating the others by hundreds of years...
   
   
8. The Wild Rider (Wilder Reiter), A minor (This piece is more commonly known in English as The Wild Horseman)
9. Folk Song (Volksliedchen), D minor
   D minor
   D minor is a minor scale based on D, consisting of the pitches D, E, F, G, A, B, and C. In the harmonic minor, the C is raised to C. Its key signature has one flat ....
   
   
10. (Fröhlicher Landmann, von der Arbeit zurückkehrend), F major
11. Sicilienne
    Siciliana
    The siciliana or siciliano is a musical style or genre often included as a movement within larger pieces of music starting in the Baroque period. It is in a slow 6/8 or 12/8 time with lilting rhythms making it somewhat resemble a slow jig, and is usually in a minor key. It was used for arias in...
    
     (Sizilianisch), A minor
12. Knecht Ruprecht, A minor
13. May, Sweet May (Mai, lieber Mai), E major
    E major
    E major is a major scale based on E, with the pitches E, F, G, A, B, C, and D. Its key signature has four sharps .Its relative minor is C-sharp minor, and its parallel minor is E minor....
    
    
14. Little Etude (Kleine Studie), G major
15. Spring Song (Frühlingsgesang), E major
16. First Sorrow (Erster Verlust), E minor
17. The Little Morning Wanderer (Kleiner Morgenwanderer), A major
    A major
    A major is a major scale based on A, with the pitches A, B, C, D, E, F, and G. Its key signature has three sharps.Its relative minor is F-sharp minor and its parallel minor is A minor...
    
    
18. The Reaper's Song (Schnitterliedchen), C major

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19. Little Romance (Kleine Romanze), A minor
20. Rustic Song (Ländliches Lied), A major
21. * * * (untitled), C major (based on Prison-Terzetto ("Euch werde Lohn in bessern Welten") from Beethoven
    Ludwig van Beethoven
    Ludwig van Beethoven was a German composer and pianist. A crucial figure in the transition between the Classical and Romantic eras in Western art music, he remains one of the most famous and influential composers of all time.Born in Bonn, then the capital of the Electorate of Cologne and part of...
    
    's Fidelio
    Fidelio
    Fidelio is a German opera in two acts by Ludwig van Beethoven. It is Beethoven's only opera. The German libretto is by Joseph Sonnleithner from the French of Jean-Nicolas Bouilly which had been used for the 1798 opera Léonore, ou L’amour conjugal by Pierre Gaveaux, and for the 1804 opera Leonora...
    
    )
22. Roundelay (Rundgesang), A major
23. The Horseman (Reiterstück), D minor
    D minor
    D minor is a minor scale based on D, consisting of the pitches D, E, F, G, A, B, and C. In the harmonic minor, the C is raised to C. Its key signature has one flat ....
    
    
24. Harvest Song (Ernteliedchen), A major
25. Echoes from the Theatre (Nachklänge aus dem Theater), A minor
26. * * * (untitled), F major
27. A Little Canon (Kanonisches Liedchen), A minor
28. Remembrance (4 November 1847) (Erinnerung), A major (the date of Felix Mendelssohn
    Felix Mendelssohn
    Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Barthóldy , use the form 'Mendelssohn' and not 'Mendelssohn Bartholdy'. The Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians gives ' Felix Mendelssohn' as the entry, with 'Mendelssohn' used in the body text...
    
    's death)
29. The Stranger (Fremder Mann), D minor
30. * * * (untitled), F major
31. Song of War (Kriegslied), D major
32. Sheherazade
    Shéhérazade
    Shéhérazade is the title of two works by the French composer Maurice Ravel.Shéhérazade, ouverture de féerie, written in 1898 but unpublished, is a work for orchestra intended as the overture for an opera of the same name...
    
    , A minor
33. Gathering of the Grapes – Happy Time! (Weinlesezeit – fröhliche Zeit!), E major
34. Theme (Thema), C major
35. Mignon
    Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship
    Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship is the second novel by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, published in 1795-96. While his first novel, The Sorrows of Young Werther, featured a hero driven to suicide by despair, the eponymous hero of this novel undergoes a journey of self-realization...
    
    , E-flat major
36. Italian Mariners' Song (Lied italienischer Marinari), G minor
    G minor
    G minor is a minor scale based on G, consisting of the pitches G, A, B, C, D, E, and F. For the harmonic minor scale, the F is raised to F. Its relative major is B-flat major, and its parallel major is G major....
    
    
37. Sailors' Song (Matrosenlied), G minor
38. Wintertime I (Winterzeit I), C minor
    C minor
    C minor is a minor scale based on C, consisting of the pitches C, D, E, F, G, A, and B. The harmonic minor raises the B to B. Changes needed for the melodic and harmonic versions of the scale are written in with naturals and accidentals as necessary.Its key signature consists of three flats...
    
     (sometimes considered one piece with Wintertime II)
39. Wintertime II (Winterzeit II), C minor/C major
40. Little Fugue (Kleine Fuge), A major
41. Northern Song (Salute to G.) (Nordisches Lied), F major (dedicated to Niels Gade; it is based on the cryptogram‎ G-A-D-E)
42. Figured Chorale (Figurierter Choral), F major
43. New Year's Eve (Sylvesterlied), A major

There are also more fragments and pieces part of Schumann's Op. 68 that he never published; they have been recorded by Marco Tezza

Marco Tezza

Marco Tezza is an Italian pianist.- Biography :After a degree with honors in piano , Tezza studied with Carlo Mazzoli, Jörg Demus, György Sándor, Bruno Canino and with Aquiles Delle Vigne at the Ecole Normale "Alfred Cortot" in Paris...

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Selected recordings

• Angela Brownridge, Helios, 55039
• Angela Brownridge, Hyperion Records
  Hyperion Records
  Hyperion Records is an independent British classical record label.-History:The company was named after Hyperion, one of the Titans of Greek mythology. It was founded by George Edward Perry, widely known as "Ted", in 1980. Early LP releases included rarely recorded 20th century British music by...
  
   (1989)
• Jörg Demus
  Jörg Demus
  Jörg Demus is an Austrian pianist.At the age of six, Demus received his first piano lessons. Five years later, at the age of 11, he entered the Vienna Academy of Music, studying piano and conducting. He graduated in 1945, then 17 years old...
  
  , Nuova Era CD.B.154.8
• Rico Gulda
  Rico Gulda
  Rico Gulda is an Austrian classical pianist and producer.The son of the renowned enigmatic pianist Friedrich Gulda and Yuko Wakiyama, Rico grew up in Munich, Germany and began taking piano lessons at age 5. He received piano instruction at the Musikhochschule Wien as well as with master pianists,...
  
  , Naxos Records
  Naxos Records
  Naxos Records is a record label specializing in classical music. Through a number of imprints, Naxos also releases genres including Chinese music, jazz, world music, and early rock & roll. The company was founded in 1987 by Klaus Heymann, a German-born resident of Hong Kong.Naxos is the largest...
  
  , 8.555711
• Luba Edlina, Chandos Records
  Chandos Records
  Chandos Records is an independent classical music recording company based in Colchester, Essex, in the United Kingdom, founded in 1979 by Brian Couzens.- Background :...
  
  , 9731
• Gernot Oertel, W.O.C. (double compact disc)
• Marco Tezza, OnClassical
  OnClassical
  OnClassical is a small Italian independent record label based in Pove del Grappa, Italy. It features classical music mostly for piano or chamber ensemble.- History :...
  
   (includes works that Schumann never published, supplement to Op. 68)
• Carlo Zecchi
  Carlo Zecchi
  Carlo Zecchi was an Italian pianist, music teacher and conductor.Zecchi was born in Rome. He led pianistic courses in Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Rome, and in Salzburg. Highly acclaimed performer of Domenico Scarlatti, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Claude Debussy works, and of Romantic...
  
  , Aura CD.A.722 (selection)

External links

(Breitkopf & Härtel

Breitkopf & Härtel

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) – also MIDI

Musical Instrument Digital Interface

MIDI is an industry-standard protocol, first defined in 1982 by Gordon Hall, that enables electronic musical instruments , computers and other electronic equipment to communicate and synchronize with each other...

files

• Score at kostenlose-klaviernoten.de
• No. 14. Little Etude, Arrangement for piano and violin (free copy)
• Album (Selection). MP3s (No. 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 9, 10, 16, 19) free download at Piano-Society