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Robert Schumann [ed by Agnes Zimmerman]Biblio.com
Schumann's Album for the Young: Opus 68 and 118
1908rif. 1002N3London: Novello and Company c1908. Cloth. Very Good. 11" by 7.5". Robert Schumann. An uncommon edition of a collection of piano music Schumann wrote for his three daughters containing charming tunes for beginners and children. An uncommon edition of Album for the Young a collection of music written by distinguished German composer Robert Schumann and edited by concert pianist Agnes Zimmerman. Published by Novello and Company in c.1909 with a dated Christmas inscription on the fifth page. In the publisher's decorative original cloth with sheet music throughout.Only three institutional copies of this work are available in the UK edited by Zimmerman.Schumann a pioneer of early Romantic music particularly in German wrote forty-three short songs as a gift to his daughters. The songs are lovely little tunes that are aimed for both children and beginners in piano. Originally from Germany Zimmerman left Cologne to study at the Royal Academy of Music and began a fifty-year career of performing in classical concerts one of the longest unbroken periods of performing for a musician at the time. She was particularly influential in music during the late nineteenth century. In the publisher's decorative original cloth with sheet music throughout. Externally very smart with a couple of small marks to boards and light edgewear. Small knocks to the head and tail of the spine and to the extremities. Black end papers are clean. Internally firmly bound with very minor wear to hinge between leaves pp.38-39. Pages are generally bright and clean with minor browning to the title leaf and the odd spot to leaf extremities a little heavier to first leaves. Very Good Novello and Company hardcover
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