Schumann and the Children
SCHUMANN'S "Scenes from Childhood," played by Cortot, was announced from 4YA merely as a "piano solo." In reality it is a series of short pieces of the delicate evanescent type which Schumann made peculiarly his own, afid each piece has a definite title, "Hare and Hounds," " Dreaming," "Pleading," "Child Falling Asleep," and so on, Different editions~ place the pieces in different ordef, and it is confusing to find, say, the first piece in my copy, "The Poet Speaks," played last on the list. How much more confusing it must be for the listener who doesn’t know the work at all when none of the
titles are So much as mentioned before or after the playing! One could guess at the intention of some of these little pieces, but such a bumpy morsel of a tune as "The Knight of the Hobby Horse" loses all meaning if the listener doesn’t know the title. The composer must have kn many children and loved them well to have captured so exquisitely the spirit of their play, their work and their childish dreams.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 12, Issue 291, 19 January 1945, Page 9
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183Schumann and the Children New Zealand Listener, Volume 12, Issue 291, 19 January 1945, Page 9
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