This composer's opus 2 ends with an unusual 26-bar pedal point on low D played below a combination of a waltz melody and a fragment from the "Grandfather's Dance," which this composer also quoted to symbolize pedantry in the final piece of his Opus 9.
This composer's opus 2 ends with an unusual 26-bar pedal point on low D played below a combination of a waltz melody and a fragment from the "Grandfather's Dance," which this composer also quoted to symbolize pedantry in the final piece of his Opus 9. He adapted his third piano sonata in F minor from his earlier Concerto Without Orchestra, and composed simple pieces such as "The Happy Farmer" for his Opus 68, which is often used to teach beginning piano players. During his "year of chamber music," he composed his piano quintet in E flat major. As the cofounder and editor of the New Journal for Music, he exclaimed "hats off, gentlemen, a genius!" in his review of Chopin, and wrote the article "New Paths" heralding the arrival of the previously unknown Brahms. This composer's piano music includes his Waldszenen and his Kinderszenen, whose seventh piece depicts a reverie and is called "Traumerei." For 10 points, name this German Romantic composer who married the virtuoso pianist Clara Wieck.
This composer's opus 2 ends with an unusual 26-bar pedal point on low D played below a combination of a waltz melody and a fragment from the "Grandfather's Dance," which this composer also quoted to symbolize pedantry in the final piece of his Opus 9.
Robert Schumann