A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Symphoniques, Etudes

by George Grove

SYMPHONIQUES, ETUDES, i.e. Symphonic Studies. The name of a theme and set of variations in C♯ minor by Robert Schumann, forming op. 13. The work is dedicated to W. Sterndale Bennett, and Mr. Spitta has pointed out that the theme contains a reference to him, inasmuch as it is identical with a part of the romance in Marschner's 'Templer und Judin,' 'Du stolzes England freue dich,' in which this country is called on to rejoice in her famous men. [See vol. iii. p. 410a.] The first edition was published by Haslinger in 1837, as 'Florestan und Eusebius, zwölf Etuden (Etudes Symphoniques).' Those published after that date are entitled 'Etudes en forme de Variations,' and have been materially altered.

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