Robert Schumann (1810–1856)
18 pieces by Robert Schumann to read and learn at your keyboard, easiest first. Each one comes with easier versions made from the score itself, so you can start below its level and work up to it as written.
- Pieces
- 18
- Levels
- 3 to 5
- Key signatures
- 3 flats to 4 sharps
- Length
- 21 to 128 bars
Level 3
Both hands busy, the hand moves around, a sharp or flat or two. Most of the Notebook minuets, sonatinas, The Entertainer.
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The Happy Farmer, Op. 68 No. 10
1 flat, 4/4, 21 bars -
Humming Song, Op. 68 No. 3
no sharps or flats, 4/4, 24 bars -
Melody, Op. 68 No. 1
no sharps or flats, 4/4, 24 bars -
Chorale, Op. 68 No. 4
1 sharp, 4/4, 32 bars -
The Wild Rider, Op. 68 No. 8
no sharps or flats, 6/8, 33 bars -
The Reaper's Song, Op. 68 No. 18
no sharps or flats, 6/8, 44 bars -
Soldiers' March, Op. 68 No. 2
1 sharp, 2/4, 48 bars -
Hunting Song, Op. 68 No. 7
1 flat, 6/8, 57 bars -
Little Study, Op. 68 No. 14
1 sharp, 6/8, 128 bars
Level 4
Real independence between the hands and more accidentals. Bach's inventions and little preludes, Für Elise, Chopin's easier preludes.
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Little Romance, Op. 68 No. 19
no sharps or flats, 4/4, 21 bars -
Child Falling Asleep, from Kinderszenen
1 sharp, 2/4, 32 bars -
The Little Morning Wanderer, Op. 68 No. 17
3 sharps, 2/4, 42 bars -
Spring Song, Op. 68 No. 15
4 sharps, 6/8, 46 bars -
First Loss, Op. 68 No. 16
1 sharp, 2/4, 49 bars -
Sicilienne, Op. 68 No. 11
no sharps or flats, 6/8, 49 bars -
Mignon, Op. 68 No. 35
3 flats, 4/4, 61 bars -
Knecht Ruprecht, Op. 68 No. 12
no sharps or flats, 2/4, 112 bars
Level 5
The edge of early intermediate: dense textures, fast passages and far keys. The Moonlight Sonata, Maple Leaf Rag, Solfeggietto.
More composers
In the library with two or more pieces.
- Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach 2
- Johann Sebastian Bach 11
- Ludwig van Beethoven 7
- Friedrich Burgmüller 3
- Frédéric Chopin 11
- Carl Czerny 24
- Claude Debussy 3
- Jean-Baptiste Duvernoy 16
- Louis Gobbaerts 2
- Edvard Grieg 2
- George Frideric Handel 5
- Joseph Haydn 4
- James Hook 2
- Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre 2
- Scott Joplin 3
- Henry Lemoine 29
- Felix Mendelssohn 2
- Leopold Mozart 2
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 18
- Christian Petzold 2
- Jean-Philippe Rameau 2
- Erik Satie 3
- Domenico Scarlatti 3
- Franz Schubert 4
- Robert Schumann 18
- Alexander Scriabin 2
- Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 6
- Georg Philipp Telemann 2
- Antonio Vivaldi 2
- Traditional 8