Davidsbündlertänze

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The Davidsbündlertänze, op. 6 (Dances of the League of David) are a group of eighteen pieces for solo piano composed by Robert Schumann in 1837 and named by him after the imaginary Davidsbündler. The pieces are not true dances, but are characteristic pieces, musical dialogues about contemporary music between Schumann's characters Florestan and Eusebius. The score is interwoven with written commentary by both characters; for instance, at the end of the eighth piece is marked, "Here Florestan made an end, and his lips quivered painfully," and the eighteenth piece is preceded by the remark, "Quite superfluously Eusebius remarked as follows: but all the time great bliss spoke from his eyes." The suite ends with the striking of twelve low C's to signify the coming of midnight and the end of festivities.

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  • David Ewen, Encyclopedia of Concert Music. New York; Hill and Wang, 1959.
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