Svendsen, Johan

Träumerei av Robert Schumann

Träumerei by Robert Schumann

([de]: Träumerei)

Original title: Robert Schumann (1810-1856): Kinderszenen (1838), op. 15 nr. 7: Träumerei. (For piano)

JSV 48

Johan Svendsen’s string orchestra arrangement of ‘Träumerei’ from Kinderszenen, Op. 15 by Robert Schumann probably originated in the 1870s. Svendsen’s version was never published, and we have no knowledge of any performances during the composer’s lifetime. This was not the first time Svendsen had arranged a piece by Schumann. Träumerei also exists in an earlier version for string quartet as part of the collection 62 Arrangements for String Quartet, JSV 30, written between 1861 and 1862. This collection of arrangements includes nine different piano pieces by Schumann set for string quartet by Svendsen. In addition to ‘Träumerei’ from Kinderszenen, Op. 15, the fourth movement of Nachtstücke, Op. 23, and ‘Fughette’ from Klavier ­stücke, Op. 32, we find ‘Kleine Fuge’, ‘Frühlings­gesang’ and ‘Fremder Mann’ from Album für die Jugend, Op. 68, and ‘Turniermarsch’, ‘Gespenstermärchen’ and ‘Geburtstagsmarsch’ from 12 vierhändige Klavierstücke für kleine und grosse Kinder, Op. 85. Svendsen’s most extensive Schumann arrangement dates from the summer of 1866, when he orchestrated Faschingsschwank aus Wien, Op. 26, for large orchestra.

Composition: 1872.

Source for dating: F. Benestad & D. Schjelderup-Ebbe: Johan Svendsen, mennesket og kunstneren, Aschehoug, Oslo, 1990.

Key: F major

Extent: ca. 2:30 min.

Sources

A; Score, autograph

[Classification: notated music, manuscript, autograph, score, fair copy]

1 page; 27x34,2 cm.

Hand ruled music paper, 18 staves
No title

There are two manuscripts under this shelf mark. The second manuscript is an autograph score of Andantino quasi allegretto, JSV 49

Written in ink (Johan Svendsen).

N-Onm Mus.ms. 7888. Facsimile

B: Printed edition of Schumann's original

[Classification: notated music, print, score, first edition]

Breitkopf & Härtel, Leipzig 1839.

Title page: Kinderscenen / Leichte Stücke / für das / Pianoforte / componirt / von / Robert Schumann. / Op. 15

Pl. no. 6016.