Chopin - prelude in F minor.
Vladimir ashkenazy, piano.
If anyone knows of an article discussing the similarities between this piece and Schumann’s Aufschwung, please email me: fairest @ gmail.
Chopin - prelude in F minor.
Vladimir ashkenazy, piano.
If anyone knows of an article discussing the similarities between this piece and Schumann’s Aufschwung, please email me: fairest @ gmail.
Schumann - Fantasiestucke op.12, no. 2 - Aufschwung.
Alfred Brendel, piano.
Gramophone magazine had a Schumann centerfold last month. They quote from this literary work (which they find embarrassing) from his late teens (so late 1820s).
“She rushed through the cemetery, bare-breasted and with a long white nightgown carelessly dangling from her body, to read an inscription on the gravestone. ‘Here lies a broken heart.’ Smiling, she sat down on the grave. Now a skeleton sat next to her and threw its arm around her. ‘You want a kiss,’ she said shyly. The skeleton laughed, gave her an icy kiss, and left. ‘I must have sinned,’ she cried out, and went into the church, where the skeleton was sitting at the organ, playing a waltz.”
