Meine Rose ("Dem holden Lenzegeschmeide"), song for voice & piano, Op. 90/2
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Meine Rose ("Dem holden Lenzegeschmeide"), song for voice & piano, Op. 90/2
- Date: 1850
- Composer: Robert Schumann
- Period: Romantic (1820-1869)
Review
Robert Schumann's "Meine Rose," Op. 90/2 (My Rose), the second song of Sechs Gedichte und Requiem, Op. 90, builds on the melancholy established in "Lied eines Schmiedes," Op. 90/1. Its three verses are reminiscent of the composer's earlier diatonic style and offer a subtle radiance that partially displaces the work's pessimistic chromaticism. Using an ABA form, the description of the wilting flower occupies the first verse; the second is slightly passionate, but still soft, in its questioning of whether a broken heart can be revived with love as a bloom can be with water; and finally, the last stanza literally repeats the first. Written in the key of B flat major, the middle section modulates to the key of G flat major, then returns to the original key for the last stanza. In a quite clever manner, Schumann repeatedly made both the vocal and piano lines fall, in imitation of the flower's wilting action.Although Lenau left the poem's question unanswered, the composer suggested that the reply was negative; in the singer's last phrase the melody climbs steadily across four notes but drops four times in the last few words. Overall the tune is delicate and is demanding of both the pianist and vocalist. ~ Meredith Gailey, Rovi
Albums with Complete Performances of the Work
Albums with Excerpt Performances of the Work
| Title | Date |
| Liederabend |
| Meine Rede bleibt betrübt, sacred cantata for voice, solo oboe, 2 violins, cello & continuo, TWV 1:1099 | |
| Meine Rosen, for voice & piano (Gedichte von Friedrich Nietzche, No. 2) |
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