Träumerei: Schumann's WONDERFUL Dream!

0:00 Introduction with Loki
0:14 Kinderszenen: a song cycle without words
0:30 The Mendelssohns invent a genre
1:11 Schumann invents a genre
1:36 A turbulent year. Separation from Clara
1:56 Clara: a child prodigy
2:20 A radical marriage
2:43 Clara instructs Robert to be more popular
3:26 Florestan and Eusebius
4:20 Conversation with Wagner
4:52 Schumann's introspection
5:20 Träumerei in film
5:35 Horowitz and Träumerei
6:45 Debate between Berg and Pfitzner
7:07 Inspiration vs analysis
8:01 Tempo, metronomes and historical change.
9:40 Träumerei played at its original tempo
10:28 Loki leaves the room
11:21 Schumann’s original intention and subsequent slowing down.
11:45 The still centre of the cycle
12:29 8 phrases, each with a rising 4th
13:12 Schumann’s ‘organic’ variation
13:45 3 steps and horn calls
14:10 Phrases of 5 beats and 3 beats
15:00 Every phrase is harmonised differently
16:20 Quick analysis
16:44 Counterpoint like a quartet
17:09 The melancholy turn
17:22 B flat
17:46 The 7th
18:44 Schumann represents Clara in music.
19:33 Influence on Debussy
21:00 Schumann’s Träumerie: performance with annotations.

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This video is an introduction to Schumann’s Träumerie of 1838, one of Schumann's most famous piano pieces, used frequently in cinema, and the subject of some controversy. It is the still, dreamy, central 7th piece in a 'song-cycle without words' of 13 miniature piano pieces called Kinderszenen (‘Scenes from Childhood’). Its wonderful evocation of dreaminess grows out of its rhythmic ambiguity and the beautiful subtleties of its melodic and harmonic writing. Each phrase floats like a song melody and then dissolves in a delicate web of counterpoint.

Robert Schumann: Träumerei (1838)

Pianist: Matthew King.

One of Horowitz’s many recorded performance of Träumerei (this one in Moscow in 1986) can be seen here:    • Vladimir Horowitz - Träumerei - Schum...  

Another performance by Horowitz, this time with the whole of Kinderszenen:    • Schumann - Kinderszenen Op.15, "Scene...  

Andreas Staier’s recording of Träumerei on a fortepiano can be heard here:    • Kinderscenen. Leichte Stücke für das ...  


Edited by Ian Coulter ( https://www.iancoultermusic.com )
Produced and directed by Ian Coulter & Matthew King


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