Schumann Scenes from Childhood
Robert Schumann's Scenes from Childhood (Kinderszenen), Op. 15, is a set of 13piano pieces written in 1838. Schumann had originally labeled this work Leichte Stücke (Easy Pieces), and he chose titles for the individual pieces only after he completed the composition. He described the titles as "nothing more than delicate hints for execution and interpretation."
The first piece, Von Fremden Ländern und Menschen (Of Foreign Lands and Peoples), is a delightful work in G major.
The seventh piece, Träumerei (Dreaming), is in F major, and is one of Schumann's most popular works.
The twelfth piece, Kind im Einschlummern (Child Falling Asleep), in E minor, is a popular work, and like Träumerei, is often featured on theme albums about nighttime music for toddlers.
Robert Schumann (1810 - 1856) was a great German Romantic composer whose legacy includes acclaimed works in practically all the musical forms of his time. Schumann's compositions are extraordinarily inventive, and they reveal a poetic musician unbound by the forms of the Classical period.
Tutorials
No. 1 About Strange Lands and People
No. 2 A Curious Story Slow
Score in video: IMSLP176120-PMLP02799-Schumann__Kinderszenen_op._15
No. 3 Blindman's Bluff Slow
No. 4 Pleading Child Slow
No. 5 Happy Enough Slow
No. 6 An Important Event Slow
Score in video: IMSLP176120-PMLP02799-Schumann__Kinderszenen_op._15
No. 7 Träumerei
No. 8 At the Fireside Slow
No. 9 The Knight of the Rocking-Horse Slow
No. 10 Almost too Serious Slow
No. 11 Frightening Slow
No. 12 Child Falling Asleep
No. 13 The Poet Speaks Slow
Book for Scenes from Childhood
Jane recommends buying the Book, she did, ages ago :)
