The New Robert Schumann Edition (RSA) is intended as a historico-critical edition of the collected works. They will be carefully studied and prepared according to present-day musicological and editorial techniques and presented in their entirety. Drafts, sketches and fragments, in short, everything that has come down to us as being authentically by Schumann and which, in most cases, has been deliberately preserved by him, will be brought together, evaluated as to its importance and documented in some form or other in the edition of the complete works.It is the aim of the edition to reproduce authentic texts which – having corrected scribal, copying and printing errors and eradicated later additions and other textual corruptions – will approach as closely as is possible the intention of the originals.The critical edition will form the basis of accurate performance material for Robert Schumann‘s work.

Preface - Abbreviations and Sigla - Quartet in A minor Op. 41, No. 1 - Introduzione, Andante espressivo, Allegro - Scherzo, Presto - Adagio - Presto - Quartet in F major Op. 41, No. 2 - Allegro vivace - Andante, quasi Variazioni - Scherzo, Presto - Allegro molto vivace - Quartet in A major Op. 41, No. 3 - Andante espressivo, Allegro molto moderato - Assai agitato - Adagio molto - Finale, Allegro molto vivace - Appendix: Transcriptions of Sources - 1. The Draft of the String Quartets Op. 41. Transcriptions of selected Examples - Quartet in a minor Op. 41, No. 1 - Quartet in F major Op. 41, No. 2 - Quartet in A major Op. 41, No. 3 - 2. The autograph Score of the String Quartets Op. 41. Transcriptions of selected Examples - Quartet in a minor Op. 41, No. 1 - Quartet in F major Op. 41, No. 2 - Quartet in A major Op. 41, No. 3 - 3. Fragments of two String Quartet Movements, Appendix D2 (1839) - Critical Report - 1. History of the Work - 1. Early Attempts at a String Quartet - 2. Genesis and Publication of the String Quartets Op. 41 - 3. Reception and Performance History - 4. Documentation of Reception and Performance History until 1860 - II. Sources - 1. Alphabetical List of Source Sigla - 2. Description of Sources - 3. Evaluation of Sources - III. Editorial Notes - Preliminary Remarks - Quartet in A minor Op. 41, No. 1 - Introduzione, Andante espressivo, Allegro - Scherzo, Presto - Adagio - Presto - Quartet in F major Op. 41, No. 2 - Allegro vivace - Andante, quasi Variazioni - Scherzo, Presto - Allegro molto vivace - Quartet in A major Op. 41, No. 3 - Andante espressivo, Allegro molto moderato - Assai agitato - Adagio molto - Finale, Allegro molto vivace - Appendix: Explanatory Notes on the Facsimiles and the Source Transcriptions - Remarks concerning the Transcriptions - 1. Draft of the String Quartets Op. 41 - Quartet in a minor Op. 41, No. 1 - Quartet in F major Op. 41, No. 2 - Quartet in A major Op. 41, No. 3 - 2. The autograph Score of the String Quartets Op. 41 - Quartet in a minor Op. 41, No. 1 - Quartet in F major Op. 41, No. 2 - Quartet in A major Op. 41, No. 3 - 3. The Engravers's Copy of the Original Edition in separate Parts of the String Quartet op. 41, No. 1 - 4. Fragments of two String Quartet Movements, Appendix D2 (1839) - Fragment of a String Quartet Movement in D major, Appendix D2, No. 1 - Fragment of a String Quartet Movement in E flat major, Appendix D2, No. 2 - Index - Facsimile Supplement