Schumann's Symphonic Etudes- appended etudes?, and opinions of the piece

[tomcc]

Working on this piece right now and want to learn the extra ones. I have heard them played in their entirety but don't remeber where the extra ones were put in. All in a group together? Dispersed amongst the standard ones?
I know they have been put in different places, but where?
I have the Henle edition, but it's not so clear what they mean (Preface)
 Also maybe some thoughts on the piece. good? bad? Like? dislike?

I personally love the piece and have found it doing wonders for my technique (I guess they are etudes!!). Some of them good for chords like the presto possible. I'm at work so I don't remeber the numbers. Also does anybody know why it goes from etude to variation to etude... It just seems to be sort of random

Cheers
Tom

[kissinfan]

Working on this piece right now and want to learn the extra ones. I have heard them played in their entirety but don't remeber where the extra ones were put in. All in a group together? Dispersed amongst the standard ones?
I know they have been put in different places, but where?
I have the Henle edition, but it's not so clear what they mean (Preface)
 Also maybe some thoughts on the piece. good? bad? Like? dislike?

I personally love the piece and have found it doing wonders for my technique (I guess they are etudes!!). Some of them good for chords like the presto possible. I'm at work so I don't remeber the numbers. Also does anybody know why it goes from etude to variation to etude... It just seems to be sort of random

Cheers
Tom

I really love this work and think henles edition is quite well, it includes the postumes variations and little details of early editions...
 Schumann very first title was Etudem im orchestercharakter von Eusebius and Florestan, maybe this explain why are called Symphonic etudes, because of the quasi orchestral colour and the schumannesque symphonic languaje, the dark, deep and grave main theme was composed by a Baron von Freaken (im not sure of the spelling), i find in them a kind a philosophy in the way he wrote the variations... sometimes are the notes of the theme while others the harmonic sequence, or the rhytmical line; this elements that are "variated" in a kind a sonata form, revealing the intrinsic and introvert  Schumanns soul

superb work