Celebrating Schumann
2010, for Piano
Length: 3 minutes
Revision: 2
Difficulty: Early Intermediate
Cost per Copy: $5.00
Robert Schumann's Album for the Young is a collection of 43 short character pieces composed later in Schumann's life. The pieces in my collection Celebrating Schumanntake various inspirations and cues from three of Schumann's works commonly played by young pianists of today: Melody, The Wild Rider, and The Happy Farmer.
The pieces in Schumann’s Album for the Young tend to be short, based on one idea, and of a simple form. The pieces here (The New Big Brother, Cello, and Staccato) attempt to follow Schumann's model while capturing the charm of Schumann’s more interesting works in Album for the Young.
All of the pieces were written in 2010. Henry Flurry premiered
the set in 2010 on a recital honoring Schumann's bicentennial birthday.
The first piece of the collection is dedicated to Jude deLaveaga, whose
birth in 2010 gave one my younger students the distinction of being TheNew Big Brother.
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