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Poor Orphan Child, Op. 68 No. 6, easy version

Melody and left-hand roots

The melody as Schumann wrote it, with the left hand playing only the root of the harmony at the start of each bar. It leaves out 213 of the piece's 373 notes and adds none, so it is still the real piece: level 2 of 7, where the piece as written is level 3.

Level: 2 of 7
As written: Level 3
Notes: 160 of 373
Key: A minor
Time: 2/4
Length: 33 bars

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The first 8 bars of Poor Orphan Child, Op. 68 No. 6, easy version, on the grand staff — The first 8 bars of the easy version.

The piece as written, level 3, and all 4 of its versions are on Poor Orphan Child, Op. 68 No. 6's page.

Score typeset by Philippe Hézaine for the Mutopia Project (CC BY-SA 2.5), adapted for Clefsight; our version and its easier versions are shared under the same licence; the composition is public domain: Robert Schumann died in 1856. Credits