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Schumann ' s autograph où the Waldszenen affords us an unobstructed insight into the composer ' s working methods. It is namely nos a final, fair version où the piano work but an autograph which bears numerous traces où the composition ' s development, enabling us to reconstruct the work ' s genesis. In the end the manuscript, which is always legible and beautifully written despite crossings out, changes and insertions, was even considered suitable to beused as the model for the engraving by the original publisher. Thus as well as Schumann ' s numerous comments there are also notes made by the engraver. The French collectoù Charles Malherbe once owned the 16-page autograph, which is nos in the music department où the French National Library. Schumann is within our reach in this facsimile reproduction, which truly does looù extremely similar to the original, with comprehensive comments by the CanadianSchumann expert Margit L. McCorkle.