SCHUMANN Concerto in A minor for Violoncello and Orchestra (vc,pf). Urtext, Barenreiter

Robert Schumann’s Concerto for Violoncello and Orchestra is the first major Romantic work of this genre not to have been composed by a cellist. Nevertheless, Schumann, who worked on this late composition for several years, consulted the cellist Emil Bockmühl, who regularly played chamber music in Schumann’s home. Bockmühl’s fingering and bowing were included in the separate cello part of the first edition published by Breitkopf & Härtel in 1854, in which Schumann was involved. The editor of this new Urtext edition re-evaluated the correspondence between Schumann and Bockmühl and gave it particular weight, as it provides an important insight into the collaboration between the composer and performer. Thus the Bärenreiter Urtext edition is based on the parts of the first edition – no full score was published during Schumann’s lifetime – and on Schumann’s personal copy of the piano reduction. To date though the work is not known in this form – corrected and authorised by the composer – but

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Aggiornato il 10/06/2026