Piano works

• Op. 1, Variations on the name "Abegg" (1830)
• Op. 2, Papillons
  Papillons
  Papillons, Op. 2, is a suite of piano pieces written in 1831 by Robert Schumann. Meaning 'butterflies', Papillons is meant to represent a masked ball and was inspired by the novel Flegeljahre by Jean Paul....
  
  , (1829–1831)
• Op. 3, Etudes After Paganini
  Niccolò Paganini
  Niccolò Paganini was an Italian violinist, violist, guitarist, and composer. He was one of the most celebrated violin virtuosi of his time, and left his mark as one of the pillars of modern violin technique...
  
   Caprices (1832)
• Op. 4, Intermezzi (1832)
• Op. 5, Impromptus [on a Theme by Clara Wieck
  Clara Schumann
  Clara Schumann was a German musician and composer, considered one of the most distinguished pianists of the Romantic era...
  
  ] (1833)
• Op. 6, Davidsbündlertänze
  Davidsbündlertänze
  Davidsbündlertänze , Op. 6, is a group of eighteen pieces for solo piano composed by Robert Schumann in 1837. Schumann named them after the imaginary Davidsbündler. The pieces are not true dances, but are characteristic pieces, musical dialogues about contemporary music between Schumann's...
  
   (1837)
• Op. 7, Toccata in C major (1832)
• Op. 8, Allegro in B minor (1831)
• Op. 9, Carnaval
  Carnaval (Schumann)
  Carnaval, Op. 9, is a work by Robert Schumann for piano solo, written in 1834-1835, and subtitled Scènes mignonnes sur quatre notes . It consists of a collection of short pieces representing masked revelers at Carnival, a festival before Lent...
  
   (1834–1835)
• Op. 10, 6 Concert Studies on Caprices by Paganini
  Niccolò Paganini
  Niccolò Paganini was an Italian violinist, violist, guitarist, and composer. He was one of the most celebrated violin virtuosi of his time, and left his mark as one of the pillars of modern violin technique...
  
   (1833)
• Op. 11, Grand Sonata No. 1 in F-sharp minor (1835)
• Op. 12, Fantasiestücke
  Fantasiestücke
  Robert Schumann's Fantasiestücke, Op. 12, are eight pieces for piano, written in 1837. Schumann titled the work inspired by the 1814 collection of novellas Fantasiestücke in Callots Manier by his favourite author, E. T. A...
  
   (Fantasy Pieces) (1837)
• Op. 13, Symphonic Studies (Études symphoniques) (1834)
• Op. 14, Grand Sonata No. 3 in F minor, Concerto Without Orchestra (1835)
• Op. 15, 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...
  
   (Scenes From Childhood) (1838)
• Op. 16, Kreisleriana
  Kreisleriana
  Kreisleriana, Op. 16, is a composition in eight movements by Robert Schumann for solo piano, subtitled , written in April 1838. Dedicated to Frédéric Chopin, it is a very dramatic work and is considered to be one of Schumann's finest compositions....
  
   (1838)
• Op. 17, Fantasie in C
  Fantasie in C (Schumann)
  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. ...
  
   (1836, revised 1839)
• Op. 18, Arabeske
  Arabeske (Schumann)
  Robert Schumann wrote his Arabeske in C major, Op. 18 in 1839, dedicating it to Frau Majorin Friederike Serre auf Maxen, to whom he also dedicated his Blumenstück in D flat, Op. 19. In the autumn of 1838 Schumann had left Leipzig for Vienna...
  
   in C (1839)
• Op. 19, Blumenstück
  Blumenstück (Schumann)
  Blumenstück in D flat, Op. 19, is a piano work by Robert Schumann, written in 1839. Blumenstück is a series of short, connected and thematically related episodes, of which the second forms a recurring refrain while undergoing changes in both key and mood...
  
   (Flower Piece) in D-flat (1839)
• Op. 20, Humoreske
  Humoreske (Schumann)
  Humoreske op. 20 in B-flat-major is a romantic piano piece by Robert Schumann, composed in 1839 and dedicated to Julie von Webenau. Schumann cited Jean Paul´s style of humour as source of inspiration, although there are no direct programmatic links to Jean Paul´s oeuvre found in the piece.It...
  
   in B-flat (1839)
• Op. 21, Novelletten (Novelettes) (1838)
• Op. 22, Piano Sonata No. 2 in G minor
  Piano Sonata No. 2 (Schumann)
  The Piano Sonata No. 2 in G-minor, Op. 22 was composed by Robert Schumann from 1831 to 1838. It was his last attempt at this genre, the other ones being the Piano Sonata in F minor and the Piano Sonata in F minor ....
  
   (1833–1835)
• Op. 23, Nachtstücke
  Nachtstücke
  The Nachtstücke are a set of four character pieces for piano by the German composer and pianist Robert Schumann.- Historical background :...
  
   (Night Pieces) (1839)
• Op. 26, Faschingsschwank aus Wien
  Faschingsschwank aus Wien
  Faschingsschwank aus Wien is a solo piano work by Robert Schumann, his Op. 26. Schumann began composition of the work in 1839 in Vienna...
  
   (Carnival Jest from Vienna) (1839)
• Op. 28, Three Romances (1839)
• Op. 32, 4 Klavierstücke (Scherzo, Gigue, Romance and Fughette) (1838–9)
• Op. 56, Studies in the Form of Canons for Organ or Pedal Piano (Etuden in kanonischer Form für Orgel oder Pedalklavier) (1845)
• Op. 58, Sketches for Organ or Pedal Piano (Skizzen für Orgel oder Pedalklavier) (1845)
• Op. 60, 6 Fugues on B–A–C–H
  BACH motif
  In music, the BACH motif is the motif, a succession of notes important or characteristic to a piece, B flat, A, C, B natural. In German musical nomenclature, in which the note B natural is written as H and the B flat as B, it forms Johann Sebastian Bach's family name...
  
   for organ or pedal piano (1845)
• Op. 66, Bilder aus Osten (Pictures from the East), 6 Impromptus for piano 4-hands (1848)
• Op. 68, Album for the Young (Album für die Jugend) (1848)
• Op. 72, Four Fugues (Vier Fugen) (1845)
• Op. 76, Four Marches (Vier Märsche) (1849)
• Op. 82, Waldszenen (Forest Scenes) (1848–1849)
• Op. 85, 12 Piano Pieces for Young and Older Children (12 Klavierstücke für kleine und große Kinder) (piano 4 hands) (1849)
• Op. 99, Bunte Blätter (1836–1849)
• Op. 109, Ball-Scenen (Scenes from a Ball) (4 hands) (1851)
• Op. 111, Three Fantasiestücke (1851)
• Op. 118, Drei Sonaten für die Jugend (Three Piano Sonatas for the Young) (1853)
• Op. 124, Album Leaves (Albumblätter) (1832–1845) (includes one piece previously part of WoO 31)
• Op. 126, Seven Piano Pieces in Fughetta Form (1853)
• Op. 130, Children's Ball (Kinderball) (four hands) (1853)
• Op. 133, Songs of Dawn (Gesänge der Frühe) (1853)
• WoO 24, Variations in E-flat on an Original Theme (1854)
• WoO 31, Studies in the Form of Free Variations on a Theme by 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...
  
   (1831–32)

Lieder and partsongs

• Op. 24, Liederkreis (Heine), nine songs (1840)
• Op. 25, Myrthen, twenty-six songs (4 books) (1840)
• Op. 27, Lieder und Gesänge volume I (5 songs) (1840)
• Op. 29, 3 Gedichte (1840)
• Op. 30, 3 Gedichte (1840)
• Op. 31, 3 Gesänge (1840)
• Op. 33, 4 Lieder (part songs for men's voices with piano ad lib) (1840)
• Op. 34, 4 Duets (soprano and tenor with piano) (1840)
• Op. 35, 12 Gedichte (1840)
• Op. 36, 6 Gedichte (1840)
• Op. 37, Gedichte aus "Liebesfrühling" (12 songs, of which numbers 2, 4 and 11 are by Clara Schumann
  Clara Schumann
  Clara Schumann was a German musician and composer, considered one of the most distinguished pianists of the Romantic era...
  
  ) (1840)
• Op. 39, Liederkreis (Eichendorff), twelve songs (1840)
• Op. 40, 5 Lieder (1840)
• Op. 42, Frauenliebe und -leben
  Frauenliebe und -leben
  Frauenliebe und -leben is a cycle of poems by Adelbert von Chamisso, written in 1830. They describe the course of a woman's love for her man, from her point of view, from first meeting through marriage to his death, and after. Selections were set to music as a song-cycle by masters of German Lied,...
  
   (Chamisso), eight songs (1840)
• Op. 43, 3 Duets (1840)
• Op. 45, Romanzen & Balladen volume I (3 songs) (1840)
• Op. 48, Song cycle, Dichterliebe
  Dichterliebe
  Dichterliebe, 'The Poet's Love' , is the best-known song cycle of Robert Schumann . The texts for the 16 songs come from the Lyrisches Intermezzo of Heinrich Heine, composed 1822–1823, published as part of the poet's Das Buch der Lieder. Following the song-cycles of Franz Schubert , those of...
  
  , sixteen songs from Heine
  Heinrich Heine
  Christian Johann Heinrich Heine was one of the most significant German poets of the 19th century. He was also a journalist, essayist, and literary critic. He is best known outside Germany for his early lyric poetry, which was set to music in the form of Lieder by composers such as Robert Schumann...
  
  's Buch der Lieder (1840)
• Op. 49, Romanzen & Balladen volume II (3 songs) (1840)
• Op. 51, Lieder und Gesänge volume II (5 songs) (1842)
• Op. 53, Romanzen & Balladen volume III (3 songs) (1840)
• Op. 55, 5 Lieder (partsongs) (1846)
• Op. 57, Belsatzar, ballad (Heine) (1840)
• Op. 59, 4 Gesänge (partsongs) (1846)
• Op. 62, 3 Gesänge (partsongs with piano ad lib) (1847)
• Op. 64, Romanzen & Balladen volume IV (3 songs) (1841–47)
• Op. 65, Ritornelle in canonischen Weisen (7 canonic part songs) (1847)
• Op. 67, Romanzen & Balladen volume I (5 partsongs) (1849)
• Op. 69, Romanzen volume I (6 partsongs for women's voices) (1849)
• Op. 74, Spanisches Liederspiel (3 songs, 5 duets, 2 quartets) (1849)
• Op. 75, Romanzen & Balladen volume II (5 partsongs) (1849)
• Op. 77, Lieder und Gesänge volume III (5 songs) (1841–50)
• Op. 78, 4 duets (soprano and tenor) (1849)
• Op. 79, Liederalbum für die Jugend (29 songs) (1849)
• Op. 83, 3 Gesänge (1850)
• Op. 87, Ballad, "Der Handschuh" (Schiller) (1850)
• Op. 89, 6 Gesänge (1850)
• Op. 90, 6 Gedichte und Requiem (1850)
• Op. 91, Romanzen volume II (6 partsongs for women's voices) (1849)
• Op. 95, 3 Gesänge (1849)
• Op. 96, Lieder und Gesänge volume IV (1850)
• Op. 101, Minnespiel (4 songs, 2 duets, 2 quartets) (1849)
• Op. 103, Mädchenlieder (2 women's voices and piano) (1851)
• Op. 104, 7 Lieder (1851)
• Op. 106, Declamation with piano, "Schön Hedwig" (1849)
• Op. 107, 6 Gesänge (1851–52)
• Op. 114, 3 Lieder für 3 Frauenstimmen (1853)
• Op. 117, 4 Husarenlieder (1851)
• Op. 119, 3 Gedichte (1851)
• Op. 122, Declamation with piano: "Ballade vom Heideknaben" and "Die Flüchlinge" (1852)
• Op. 125, 5 heitere Gesänge (1851)
• Op. 127, 5 Lieder und Gesänge (1850–51)
• Op. 135, Gedichte der Königin Maria Stuart (1852)
• Op. 137, Jagdlieder (5 partsongs for men's voices with 4 horns ad lib) [1849]
• Op. 138, Spanische Liebeslieder (1849)
• Op. 142, 4 Gesänge (1852)
• Op. 145, Romanzen & Balladen Vol. III (5 partsongs) (1849–51)
• Op. 146, Romanzen & Balladen Vol. IV (5 partsongs) (1849)

Choral and dramatic works

• Op. 50, Das Paradies und die Peri
  Paradise and the Peri
  Paradise and the Peri, in German Das Paradies und die Peri, is a cantata for soloists, chorus, and orchestra by Robert Schumann. Completed in 1843, the work was published as Schumann's Op. 50....
  
  , oratorio (1841–43)
• Op. 71, Adventlied for soprano, chorus and orchestra (1848)
• Op. 81, Genoveva
  Genoveva
  Genoveva is an opera in four acts by Robert Schumann in the genre of German Romanticism with a libretto by Robert Reinick and the composer. The only opera Schumann ever wrote, it received its first performance on 25 June 1850 at the Stadttheater in Leipzig, with the composer conducting...
  
  , opera (1848)
• Op. 84, Beim Abschied zu singen for chorus & winds (1848)
• Op. 93, Motet, "Verzweifle nicht im Schmerzenstal" for double chorus and organ ad lib (1849, orchestrated 1852)
• Op. 98a, Songs from Wilhelm Meister
• Op. 98b, Requiem for Mignon for solo voices, chorus and orchestra (1849)
• Op. 108, Nachtlied for chorus and orchestra (1849)
• Op. 112, Der Rose Pilgerfahrt oratorio (1851)
• Op. 115, Overture and incidental music, Manfred
  Manfred (Schumann)
  Manfred: Dramatic Poem with Music in Three Parts [German: Manfred. Dramatisches Gedicht in drei Abtheitungen], is a work of incidental music by Robert Schumann...
  
   (1848–49)
• Op. 116, Der Königssohn (Uhland
  Ludwig Uhland
  Johann Ludwig Uhland , was a German poet, philologist and literary historian.-Biography:He was born in Tübingen, then Duchy of Württemberg, and studied jurisprudence at the university there, but also took an interest in medieval literature, especially old German and French poetry...
  
  ), for solos, chorus and orchestra (1851)
• Op. 123, Festival overture on the Rheinweinlied for orchestra and chorus (1853)
• Op. 139, "Des Sängers Fluch" (Uhland) for solo voice, chorus and orchestra (1852)
• Op. 140, "Vom Pagen und der Königstochter" for solo voice, chorus, and orchestra (1852)
• Op. 141, 4 doppelchörige Gesänge (partsongs) (1849)
• Op. 143, "Das Glück von Edenhall" (Uhland) for solo voice, chorus, and orchestra (1853)
• Op. 144, "Neujahrslied" for chorus and orchestra (1849–50)
• Op. 147, Missa sacra (1852)
• Op. 148, Requiem (1852)
• WoO 3, Scenes from Goethe's Faust
  Scenes from Goethe's Faust
  Written between 1844 and 1853, Szenen aus Goethes Faust has been described as the height of composer Robert Schumann's accomplishments in the realm of dramatic music....
  
  , oratorio (1844–1853)

Orchestral works

• Op. 38, Symphony No. 1 in B flat
  Symphony No. 1 (Schumann)
  Symphony No. 1 in B flat major, Op. 38 was the first symphonic work composed by Robert Schumann. Although Schumann made some "symphonic attempts" in the autumn of 1840 soon after he married his beloved Clara Wieck, he did not compose his First Symphony until early 1841...
  
  , Spring (1841)
• Op. 52, Overture, Scherzo and Finale
  Overture, Scherzo and Finale
  The Overture, Scherzo and Finale in E major is a work for symphony orchestra by Robert Schumann. It is his opus 52, and was written in 1841. Schumann originally considered it his second symphony.The work is in three movements:...
  
   in E (1841)
• Op. 61, Symphony No. 2 in C
  Symphony No. 2 (Schumann)
  The Symphony in C major by German composer Robert Schumann was published in 1847 as his Symphony No. 2, Op. 61, although it was the third symphony he had completed, counting the B-flat major symphony published as No. 1 in 1841, and the original version of his D minor symphony of 1841 The Symphony...
  
   (1845–46)
• Op. 97, Symphony No. 3 in E flat
  Symphony No. 3 (Schumann)
  Composed from November 2 to December 9, 1850, the Symphony No. 3 “Rhenish” in E flat major, Op. 97, is the last symphony that Robert Schumann composed, although it was not the last symphony that he published...
  
  , Rhenish (1850)
• Op. 100, The Bride of Messina overture (1850–51)
• Op. 120, Symphony No. 4 in D minor
  Symphony No. 4 (Schumann)
  The Symphony No. 4 in D Minor, Op. 120, composed by Robert Schumann, was completed in 1841 . Schumann heavily revised the symphony in 1851, and it was this version that reached publication....
  
   (1841; revised in 1851)
• Op. 128, Julius Caesar overture (1851)
• Op. 136, Hermann und Dorothea overture (1851)
• WoO 29, Symphony in G minor ("Zwickau") (incomplete)

Works for solo instrument(s) with orchestra

• Op. 54, Piano Concerto
  Piano Concerto (Schumann)
  The Piano Concerto in A minor, Op.54, is a famous Romantic concerto by Robert Schumann, completed in 1845.Schumann had begun several piano concerti before this one: In 1828, he had begun one in E-flat major; from 1829-31 he worked on one in F major, and in 1839, he wrote one movement of a concerto...
  
   in A minor (1841–45)
• Op. 86, Konzertstück for Four Horns and Orchestra (1849)
• Op. 92, Introduction and Allegro Appassionato for Piano and Orchestra (1849)
• Op. 129, Cello Concerto
  Cello Concerto (Schumann)
  The Cello Concerto in A minor, Op. 129, by Robert Schumann was completed in a period of only two weeks, between 10 October and 24 October 1850, shortly after Schumann became the music director at Düsseldorf.The concerto was never played in Schumann's lifetime...
  
   in A minor (1850)
• Op. 131, Fantasy in C for violin and orchestra (1853)
• Op. 134, Introduction and Allegro for Piano and Orchestra (1853)
• WoO 23, Violin Concerto
  Violin Concerto (Schumann)
  Robert Schumann’s Violin Concerto in D minor, WoO 23 was his only violin concerto and one of his last significant compositions, and one that remained unknown to all but a very small circle for more than 80 years after it was written.- Composition :...
  
   in D minor (1853)

Chamber music

• Op. 41, Three String Quartets in A minor, F and A (1842)
• Op. 44, Piano Quintet in E flat
  Piano Quintet (Schumann)
  The Piano Quintet in E flat major, Op. 44, by Robert Schumann was written in 1842. Like most piano quintets, it is written for piano and string quartet .- Background :...
  
   (1842)
• Op. 46, Andante and variations for two pianos (1843) (there is an original version for two pianos, 2 cellos and horn)
• Op. 47, Piano Quartet
  Piano Quartet (Schumann)
  The Piano Quartet in E flat major, Op. 47, by Robert Schumann was written in 1842. It has been described as the "creative double" of Schumann's Piano Quintet, also in E-flat Major...
  
   in E flat (1842)
• Op. 63, Piano Trio No. 1 in D minor (1847)
• Op. 70, Adagio and Allegro for Horn and Piano (1849)
• Op. 73, Fantasy Pieces for Clarinet and Piano
  Fantasy Pieces for Clarinet and Piano
  Three Fantasy Pieces for Clarinet and Piano, Op. 73, were written in 1849 by the Romantic era composer Robert Schumann...
  
   (1849) (Schumann directed that the clarinet part could be also performed on violin or cello)
• Op. 80, Piano Trio No. 2 in F (1847)
• Op. 88, Fantasiestücke for piano trio (1842)
• Op. 94, Three Romances for oboe and piano (1849)
• Op. 102, Five Stücke im Volkston for piano and cello (1849)
• Op. 105, Violin Sonata No. 1
  Violin Sonata No. 1 (Schumann)
  The violin sonata no. 1 in A minor, opus 105 of Robert Schumann was written the week of September 12– 16 September 1851. Schumann was reported to have expressed displeasure with the work...
  
   in A minor (1851)
• Op. 110, Piano Trio No. 3
  Piano Trio No. 3 (Schumann)
  The Piano Trio No. 3 in G minor by Robert Schumann was written in 1851, and is his opus 110. It has four movements:#Bewegt, doch nicht zu rasch in G minor, in 6/8 time...
  
   in G minor (1851)
• Op. 113, Märchenbilder
  Märchenbilder (Schumann)
  Märchenbilder or Fairy Tale Pictures, for Viola and Piano, Op. 113, was written by Robert Schumann in March 1851. The work is dedicated to the German violinist and conductor Wilhelm Joseph von Wasielewski...
  
   for piano and viola (1851)
• Op. 121, Violin Sonata No. 2 in D minor (1851)
• Op. 132, Märchenerzählungen, four pieces for clarinet, viola and pianoforte (probably 1853)
• WoO 32, Piano quartet in C minor (1829)
• WoO 27, Violin Sonata No. 3 in A minor (1853)