SCHUMANN, SOPRANO FRAULIEBE UND LEBEN OP. 42 IN GERMAN 78RPM X3 HMV DB9567-9

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  ELISABETH SCHUMANN, SOPRANO
  
  
  
  GERALD MOORE, PIANOFORTE
  
  In German with Piano
  
  FRAUENLIÉBE UND LEBEN, OP. 42
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  Frauenliebe und Leben (A Woman's Love and Life) 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, namely Carl Loewe, Franz Paul Lachner and Robert Schumann. The setting by Schumann (his opus 42) is now the most widely known.
  

  Schumann wrote his setting in 1840, a year in which he wrote so many lieder (including three other song cycles: Liederkreis Op. 24 and Op. 39, Dichterliebe), that it is known as his "year of song". There are eight poems in his cycle, together telling a story from the protagonist first meeting her love, through their marriage, to his death. They are:

  1. "Seit ich ihn gesehen" ("Since I Saw Him")
  2. "Er, der Herrlichste von allen" ("He, the Noblest of All")
  3. "Ich kann's nicht fassen, nicht glauben" ("I Cannot Grasp or Believe It")
  4. "Du Ring an meinem Finger" ("You Ring Upon My Finger")
  5. "Helft mir, ihr Schwestern" ("Help Me, Sisters")
  6. "Süßer Freund, du blickest mich verwundert an" ("Sweet Friend, You Gaze")
  7. "An meinem Herzen, an meiner Brust" ("At My Heart, At My Breast")
  8. "Nun hast du mir den ersten Schmerz getan" ("Now You Have Caused Me Pain for the First Time")

  Schumann's choice of text was very probably inspired in part by events in his personal life. He had been courting Clara Wieck, but had failed to get her father's permission to marry her. In 1840, after a legal battle to make such permission unnecessary, he finally married her.

  The songs in this cycle are notable for the fact that the piano has a remarkable independence from the voice. Breaking away from the Schubertian ideal, Schumann has the piano contain the mood of the song in its totality. Another notable characteristic is the cycle's cyclic structure, in which the last movement repeats the theme of the first.

  
  
  

HMV Catalog #DB9567-9

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 These 78 RPM HMV records are dealer stock in unplayed, mint condition. Grading is visual. Note: The records have been stored in record racks for 50 years and should be cleaned before playing.