Autograph letter signed ("R. Schumann").
8vo. 1 p. on a bifolium with integral address panel. In German. One addendum.
€ 9,500.00
To the music publisher Raimund Härtel about the imminent publication of his new work for piano: "When the fantasias are ready I would request you send me a few copies. Clara Wieck has let me know that she wishes to play some of them at her Vienna concerts, which will surely be useful to you and me - and this is also the reason why I press you so hard, as Clara wants to give only one or two more concerts [...]" (transl.). Schumann adds in a postscript: "I beg you to publish the enclosed advertisement in your main newspaper, charging the expenses to Mr. Friese's account".
In July 1837 the Leipzig publisher August Robert Friese had bought Robert Schumann's "Neue Zeitschrift für Musik". The advertisement ran there on March 2nd (NZfM 8/18, p. 72). The fantasias for piano ("Fantasiestücke", op. 12), composed before the end of July 1837, were first published by Breitkopf & Härtel in Leipzig in February 1838, in two volumes. On February 6th, Breitkopf & Härtel sent Schumann the voucher copies. Clara Schumann prformed the pieces in Vienna on March 4th.
Includes a contemporary handwritten copy of the essay "Musikalische Haus- u. Lebensregeln verfasst von Rob. Schumann" (17 pp. and title), first published in 1850 in the "Neue Zeitschrift für Musik" (8vo, sewn in paper wrappers).
