Great Compositions/Performances: Schumann Kinderszenen Op 15 – Valentina Lisitsa

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Schumann Kinderszenen Op 15 – Valentina Lisitsa Haskil Argerich Horowitz Bosendorfer

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First edition title page

Kinderszenen (German pronunciation: [ˈkɪndɐˌst͡seːnən]; original spelling Kinderscenen, “Scenes from Childhood“), Opus 15, by Robert Schumann, is a set of thirteen pieces of music for piano written in 1838. In this work, Schumann provides us with his adult reminiscences of childhood. Schumann had originally written 30 movements for this work, but chose 13 for the final version.^[1] Robert Polansky has discussed the unused movements.^[2]

Nr. 7, Träumerei, is one of Schumann’s best known pieces; it was the title of a 1944 German biographical film on Robert Schumann.^[3] Träumerei is also the opening and closing musical theme in the 1947 Hollywood film Song of Love, starring Katharine Hepburn as Clara Wieck Schumann.^[4]

Schumann had originally labeled this work Leichte Stücke (Easy Pieces). Likewise, the section titles were only added after the completion of the music, and Schumann described the titles as “nothing more than delicate hints for execution and interpretation”.^[5] Timothy Taylor has discussed Schumann’s choice of titles for this work in the context of the changing situation of music in 19th century culture and economics.^[6]

In 1974, Eric Sams noted that there was no known complete manuscript of Kinderszenen

**Movements**
Title	Key	Play
1. Von fremden Ländern und Menschen Of Foreign Lands and Peoples	G major	Menu 0:00
2. Kuriose Geschichte A Curious Story^[8]	D major	Menu 0:00
3. Hasche-Mann Blind Man’s Bluff	B minor	Menu 0:00
4. Bittendes Kind Pleading Child	D major	Menu 0:00
5. Glückes genug Happy Enough	D major	Menu 0:00
6. Wichtige Begebenheit An Important Event	A major	Menu 0:00
7. Träumerei Dreaming	F major	Menu 0:00
8. Am Kamin At the Fireside^[9]	F major	Menu 0:00
9. Ritter vom Steckenpferd Knight of the Hobbyhorse	C major	Menu 0:00
10. Fast zu ernst Almost Too Serious	G-sharp minor	Menu 0:00
11. Fürchtenmachen Frightening	E minor	Menu 0:00
12. Kind im Einschlummern Child Falling Asleep	E minor	Menu 0:00
13. Der Dichter spricht The Poet Speaks	G major	Menu