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Symphony No. 4

Composer: Schumann Robert

Instruments: Orchestra

Tags: Symphony

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Revised version (1851). Complete Score (scan) PDF 19 MBRevised version (1851). Complete Score PDF 19 MBRevised version (1851). Complete Score (with bar numbers) PDF 21 MBRevised version (1851). I. Ziemlich langsam - Lebhaft PDF 6 MBRevised version (1851). II. Romanze: Ziemlich langsam PDF 0 MBRevised version (1851). III. Scherzo: Lebhaft PDF 2 MBRevised version (1851). IV. Langsam - Lebhaft PDF 5 MB
Original version (1841). Complete Score PDF 14 MB
Revised version (1851). Complete Score PDF 20 MBRevised version (1851). Color Cover PDF 0 MBRevised version (1851). I. Ziemlich langsam PDF 8 MBRevised version (1851). II. Romanze, III. Scherzo, IV. Langsam PDF 11 MB
Revised version (1851). Complete Score PDF 40 MB
Revised version (1851). Complete Score PDF 45 MB
Revised version (1851). 4th movement (with original Title Page) PDF 45 MB
Revised version (1851). Complete Score PDF 22 MB

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AllViolinViolaTrumpetTromboneTimpaniOboeFrench hornFluteClarinetCelloBassoonAlto saxophone

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Revised version (1851). (Gustav Mahler)

Other

Revised version (1851). French horn + Piano (Horn, August)Revised version (1851). Piano four hands (Unknown)Revised version (1851). Piano four hands (Theodor Kirchner)Revised version (1851). French horn + Piano(2) (Horn, August)Romanza: Andante (No.2). Organ (Smith Newell Penfield)Romanza: Andante (No.2). Flute + Piano + Violin (Wetzger, Paul)Revised version (1851). Piano(2) (Theodor Kirchner)Revised version (1851). Piano (Unknown)
Wikipedia
The Symphony No. 4 in D minor, Op. 120, composed by Robert Schumann, was first completed in 1841. Schumann heavily revised the symphony in 1851, and it was this version that reached publication.
Clara Schumann, Robert's widow, later claimed on the first page of the score to the symphony—as published in 1882 as part of her husband's complete works (Robert Schumanns Werke, Herausgegeben von Clara Schumann, published by Breitkopf & Härtel)—that the symphony had merely been sketched in 1841 but was only fully orchestrated ("vollständig instrumentiert") in 1851. However, this was untrue, and Johannes Brahms, who greatly preferred the earlier version of the symphony, published that version in 1891 despite Clara's strenuous objections.
The work is scored for two flutes, two oboes, two clarinets, two bassoons, four horns, two trumpets, three trombones, timpani and the usual strings.
The 1851 (published) version of the work is in four movements which follow each other without pause:
The 1841 version, however, used Italian rather than German tempo indications, with the four movements as follows:
Schumann's biographer Peter Ostwald comments that this earlier version is "lighter and more transparent in texture" than the revision, but that Clara "always insisted that the later, heavier, and more stately version [of 1851] was the better one."
The scherzo borrows a theme from Symphony No. 1 in F minor, Op. 7 (1824) by Johann Wenzel Kalliwoda (1801–1866), whom Schumann admired.