In 1848, after finishing an album of little piano pieces for his daughter Marie, Schumann devised the plan of compiling a “children’s album”. Since then the resultant collection of 43 pieces has enjoyed unparalleled success. Schumann’s “Album for the Young” is now presented in an Urtext edition which meets the needs of performers. In addition to the famous “Advice to Young Musicians”(in German, English and a French translation by Liszt), other pieces related to this work but left unpublished dur...

• Vorwort
• Fingersatz und Hinweise zur Aufführungspraxis
• Preface
• Fingering and Notes on Performance Practice
• 43 Klavierstücke für die Jugend op. 68
• Erste Abteilung:
• Melodie
• Soldatenmarsch
• Trällerliedchen
• Ein Choral
• Stückchen
• Armes Waisenkind
• Jägerliedchen
• Wilder Reiter
• Volksliedchen
• Fröhlicher Landmann, von der Arbeit zurückkehrend
• Sizilianisch
• Knecht Ruprecht
• Mai, lieber Mai, – Bald bist du wieder da!
• ...