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Robert SCHUMANN – Sommerlied (Summer Song), Op.146/4 (1849)

prepared for FOUR Cello Soloists by DAVID JOHNSTONE

PDF 1 – Original vocal score with cello indications
PDF 2 – All Individual Cello Parts

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EXAMPLE from the Cello 1 part:

Notes:

In 1847 Schumann’s friend Ferdinand Hiller had left Dresden to take up the position as municipal director of music in Düsseldorf. He left Schumann to direct the amateur male choir or Liedertafel that he himself in turn had taken over from Wagner. The work involved, although not necessarily musically satisfying, brought the composition by Schumann of a number of part-songs for male voices.

The following year (1848) Schumann decided to establish a more ambitious mixed choir, his ‘Verein für Chorgesang’, with some hundred amateur singers. It was for this choral society that he embarked on his four albums of ‘Romanzen und Balladen’, the last two volumes of which were completed in 1851 and published posthumously in 1860.

His ‘Romanzen’ for women’s voices date from 1849, a year that Schumann regarded as one of his most productive, and this in spite of the political disturbances in Dresden. The final collection (Volume 4) of ‘Romanzen und Balladen’ includes ‘Sommerlied’ (Summer Song), with text by Rückert, and laments the passing of earlier, happier days.

This song works well for four solo cellos (but perhaps, not for a large cello ensemble). The small phrasings give ample scope of musical breathing for a chamber cello ensemble. The soprano line does not go high up, and is well possible by Cello 1 without changing registers. David Johnstone has edited the original giving cello indications.

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