SCHUMANN, Robert 1810-1856

Zweite Sinfonie für grosses Orchester componirt und Seiner Majestät dem Könige von Schweden und Norwegen Oscar I. ehrfurchtsvoll zugeeignet ... Op. 61. Partitur 5 2/3 Thlr. [Full score]

Leipzig: F. Whistling [PN 429-431], 1864.

Octavo. Contemporary half dark green textured cloth with marbled boards, titling gilt to spine. 1f. (recto title, verso blank), 232 pp. Title lithographed, music engraved.

Provenance
William Samuel Bambridge (1842-1923), conductor of the Marlborough Choral Society, Marlborough College, Wiltshire, England, with "W. S. Bambridge Marlborough College 1873" to front pastedown; publisher's handstamp to foot of title and handstamp in red ink "21451" to upper inner corner of title and first page of music.

Binding worn, rubbed, and bumped; head of spine slightly frayed; hinges cracked. Slightly worn; some browning, heavier to margins; occasional foxing; one signature partially detached.

First Edition, later issue; the first issue was published in November of 1847. McCorkle p. 269. Hofmann p. 137 ("later issues bear the year to the title").

"The Second Symphony coheres by virtue of a web of recurrent thematic strands. The technique of motivic recall is enhanced by Schumann’s employment of contrapuntal combinations. Specifically, the chorale theme introduced midway through the finale is integrated with the opening theme of the first movement, also a chorale, in the symphony’s concluding passages. The displacement of the finale’s initial march-like theme by a pair of interwoven chorales in essence lifts the Second Symphony from a secular to a quasi-religious plane." John Daverio and Eric Sams in Grove Music Online.

Item #41093

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