Add MS 37056

Sonata in F minor (the original MS.), described by the composer, on a slip pasted in at the beginning of the MS., as 'Concert pour Piano seul composé et dedié a Mr. Ignace Moscheles par Robert Schumann. Œuv. 14.' For this he afterwards substituted (f. 19), at the request of Haslinger the publisher, the title '[? Zweite] Sonate für das Pianoforte' (see also f. 20).

It consisted originally of an Allegro brillante. f. 3; — 'Scherzo I° Vivacissimo.' f. 8b; — 'Scherzo 2do Promenade.' f. 12b; — 'Quasi Variazioni. Andantino de Clara Wieck'. f. 14; — and a Prestissimo. f. 16b. Of these movements, the two Scherzos were altogether omitted in the first edition; but the second one was restored in the second edition [1853], without the part described as 'Intermezzo, molto teneramente' down to the beginning of the Variations (ff. 13-14). The first Scherzo was first published in 1866, by Rieter-Biedermann. A fifth Variation was omitted between those numbered III and IV; and for the first page of the Prestissimo (f. 16b) was substituted that which begins at the top of f. 17, the tempo of this movement being altered from 6/16 to 2/4. Numerous other alterations were made by Schumann in the course of composing the 'Concerto,' by which name he still calls it in a letter to Moscheles dated 30 July, 1836. On f. 2 is the imprimatur of H[aslinger] the publisher, dated 17 June, 1836, addressed to Herr Schönwälder. The composer's signature is given on ff. 1, 2, 3, 14b, 19, as 'Robert,' 'Rob.' or 'R. Schumann'; and at the end is written 'Five. 5ten Juni, 1836.'