Robert Schumann composed Kinderszenen in February and March 1838, during a separation from his fiancée Clara Wieck. The translation of the German title is “Scenes from Childhood”
Depictions of children at that time tended glorify an innocent existence close to God and nature.
Kinderszenen is a pioneering work in wholly adopting the perspective of a very small child. Schumann intended the cycle as a recollection of moments from his own early childhood, and not as children seen from an adult perspective.
These pieces, as all our earliest memories, are snapshots of emotions without language.
Here is Ms. Yeo Eum Son to play this amazing music for you:
