Robert Schumann
Collection of first and early editions of his piano music, one inscribed and signed by Clara Schumann
including:
Drei Romanzen für das Pianoforte...Op.28, Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, [1840], FIRST EDITION, 19 pages, folio, engraved music, ownership inscription to upper wrapper ("Ernst Rudorff...M. H. Nachlass."), publisher's green printed wrappers
Kinderscenen. Leichte Stücke für das Pianoforte...Op.15...Pr. 25 Ngr., Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, [after 1840,], 20 pages, folio, plate number 6016, the music within a green ornamental border, ownership inscription to title ("Gertrud Rietschel"), publisher's stamp to title, lacking second leaf of outer bifolium, small tears to title leaf, some marginal browning
40 [recte: 43] Clavierstücke für die Jugend...Op.68...Pr.2 ['1/3' added in ms., not '2/3', as called for by McCorkle] Th., Hamburg & New York: Schuberth & Comp. etc., [1848], FIRST EDITION, 2 leaves, 62 pages, plate number 1232, engraved music, ornamental lithographed title by L. Richter engraved table of contents, ownership inscriptions to front free endpaper ("...Marie Hoffmeister 1850...Ernst Rudorff 1894."), some pencil fingerings, contemporary quarter green morocco, gilt lettering to upper cover ("Schumann Jugend Album."), some light spotting to margins
Andante und Variationen für zwei Pianofortes...Op.46 [parts], Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, [1844], INSCRIBED BY CLARA SCHUMANN TO ERNST RUDORFF ("Herrn Ernst Rudorff dem wackeren Zeitgenossen zur Erinnerung an die Festtage 1873...von Clara Schumann."), FIRST EDITION, 15, 12 pages, folio, lithographed title, plate number 6978, priced at '1 Tlr.5 Ngr.', piano II part contained loose in a sleeve to lower cover, contemporary cloth, vertical crease to piano II part
Études en forme de Variations...dediées à son ami William Sterndale Bennett ..Oeuvre 13...Édition nouvelle revue par l'Auteur, Hamburg, Leipzig & New York: Schuberth & Comp., [1852,] FIRST EDITION OF SECOND VERSION, 31 pages, folio, engraved title and music, original green printed wrappers
Waldscenen. Neun Clavierstücke...Op.82, Leipzig: Bartholf Senff, [1869,] 23 pages, folio, publisher's printed wrappers, wrappers torn and split
and 11 other editions, including later editions of Papillons, op.2 (Hofmann's fourth edition), op.85 no.12, and Op.124 no.16
A fine assortment of Schumann's keyboard music, including the incomparable Kinderscenen, op.15, from the collection of the one-time piano pupil of Clara Schumann, the Berlin pianist and teacher Ernst Rudorff (1840-1916), whose music library was one of the greatest nineteenth-century music collections of its kind.
Robert Schumann
Collection of first and early editions of his piano music, one inscribed and signed by Clara Schumann
including:
Drei Romanzen für das Pianoforte...Op.28, Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, [1840], FIRST EDITION, 19 pages, folio, engraved music, ownership inscription to upper wrapper ("Ernst Rudorff...M. H. Nachlass."), publisher's green printed wrappers
Kinderscenen. Leichte Stücke für das Pianoforte...Op.15...Pr. 25 Ngr., Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, [after 1840,], 20 pages, folio, plate number 6016, the music within a green ornamental border, ownership inscription to title ("Gertrud Rietschel"), publisher's stamp to title, lacking second leaf of outer bifolium, small tears to title leaf, some marginal browning
40 [recte: 43] Clavierstücke für die Jugend...Op.68...Pr.2 ['1/3' added in ms., not '2/3', as called for by McCorkle] Th., Hamburg & New York: Schuberth & Comp. etc., [1848], FIRST EDITION, 2 leaves, 62 pages, plate number 1232, engraved music, ornamental lithographed title by L. Richter engraved table of contents, ownership inscriptions to front free endpaper ("...Marie Hoffmeister 1850...Ernst Rudorff 1894."), some pencil fingerings, contemporary quarter green morocco, gilt lettering to upper cover ("Schumann Jugend Album."), some light spotting to margins
Andante und Variationen für zwei Pianofortes...Op.46 [parts], Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, [1844], INSCRIBED BY CLARA SCHUMANN TO ERNST RUDORFF ("Herrn Ernst Rudorff dem wackeren Zeitgenossen zur Erinnerung an die Festtage 1873...von Clara Schumann."), FIRST EDITION, 15, 12 pages, folio, lithographed title, plate number 6978, priced at '1 Tlr.5 Ngr.', piano II part contained loose in a sleeve to lower cover, contemporary cloth, vertical crease to piano II part
Études en forme de Variations...dediées à son ami William Sterndale Bennett ..Oeuvre 13...Édition nouvelle revue par l'Auteur, Hamburg, Leipzig & New York: Schuberth & Comp., [1852,] FIRST EDITION OF SECOND VERSION, 31 pages, folio, engraved title and music, original green printed wrappers
Waldscenen. Neun Clavierstücke...Op.82, Leipzig: Bartholf Senff, [1869,] 23 pages, folio, publisher's printed wrappers, wrappers torn and split
and 11 other editions, including later editions of Papillons, op.2 (Hofmann's fourth edition), op.85 no.12, and Op.124 no.16
A fine assortment of Schumann's keyboard music, including the incomparable Kinderscenen, op.15, from the collection of the one-time piano pupil of Clara Schumann, the Berlin pianist and teacher Ernst Rudorff (1840-1916), whose music library was one of the greatest nineteenth-century music collections of its kind.
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