The fast melody of alternately ascending and descending three note passages in its ninth movement imitate the motion of a rocking horse.
The fast melody of alternately ascending and descending three note passages in its ninth movement imitate the motion of a rocking horse. "Almost Too Serious" and "Frightened" are two of the movements that follow before this set closes with movement thirteen's reflexive postlude, "The Poet Speaks." It opens with the awestruck-sounding "Of Foreign Lands and Peoples," and Vladimir Horowitz made a stand-alone encore staple of its seventh movement, a dreamy piece more popularly known by its German name, "Traumerei." FTP, this set of short piano pieces Robert Schumann composed to reminisce about his youth.
The fast melody of alternately ascending and descending three note passages in its ninth movement imitate the motion of a rocking horse.
{Kinderscenen} or {Scenes from Childhood}