Fairy-Tale Pictures op. 113, Baset on Robert Schumann. Neue Ausgabe sämtlicher Werke, Band II/3, for viola (violin) and piano, Score and part

Edición de / Edited by: Koch, Armin

In the summer of 1852, Vier Stücke [?Four Pieces?] for viola and piano by Robert Schumann were published under the title Märchenbilder [?Fairy-Tale Pictures?] by the Kassel publishing house Luckhardt, with a particularly expressive vignette on the title page. Unusual were both this title Märchenbilder, on the one hand, and the scoring with a solo viola, on the other. With the viola in a soloistic role in chamber music, Schumann?s Märchenbilder, Op. 113, offers a rather unfamiliar, but all the more delightful sound.