Album pour la jeunesse - 14.Petite Etude

Étude · in G major · Op. 68, No. 14

Robert Schumann 1810–1856
G major
Key
Étude
Form
Op. 68, No. 14
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Themes & character
Little Study·Continuous broken chords·Evenness and control·Composed 1848

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Catalogue
Op. 68, No. 14
Key
G major
Form
Étude

About the piece

Little Study, fourteenth in the Album for the Young, and the most overtly technical piece so far in the collection: continuous broken chords that must flow evenly and quietly from beginning to end. Schumann left a note in his accompanying maxims that pieces of this kind should sound like music, not like exercises, and he wrote it accordingly, giving the figuration a genuine harmonic journey to travel.

The composer

Robert Schumann
Robert Schumann
1810–1856

Robert Schumann was a German composer, pianist, and music critic of the early Romantic era. He composed in all the main musical genres of the time, writing for solo piano, voice and piano, chamber groups, orchestra, choir and the opera. His works typify the spirit of the Romantic era in German music.

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