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Clara Mathilde Faisst (1872–1948) was a composer-pianist based in Karlsruhe. Her song output in our source corpus is now complete on PracticeClef: nine sets — Op. 1, 3, 4, 6, 8, 11, 18, 19, and two stand-alone Kriegslieder (war songs) — published between 1894 and 1926. Most of her sets after Op. 6 were self-published in Karlsruhe and sold through local music dealers, a distribution pattern that puts her a century ahead of the independently-published composer. As with most Lieder in this catalog, the individual songs below are piano parts of voice-and-piano songs — the accompaniment alone, clearly labeled as such, not the full song with its vocal line.
Six pieces to start with
Die Insel der Vergessenheit — Clara Faisst
This piece is in A major (off-signature), sits at level 6 of 9, and takes about 3 minutes to play.
Op. 8 No. 1, and the set's showpiece oddity: it's written under a one-flat key signature even though the music sits in A major, oscillating between A-major and F-major chromatic mediants over a tremolo marked pp una corda. Worth reading against the printed signature to see the trick for yourself.
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Letzter Wunsch — Clara Faisst
This piece is in Eb major (opens in Eb minor), sits at level 6 of 9, and takes about one minute to play.
Op. 3 No. 3 opens in E-flat minor — six flats on the page — and closes in E-flat major, a signature change mid-song and the darkest key signature anywhere in this set.
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Lied aus Bosnien — Clara Faisst
This piece is in A major (progressive from A minor), sits at level 5 of 9, and takes about 47 seconds to play.
Op. 4 No. 5 packs Balkan folk color into under a minute: a modal A-minor body that majorizes for its closing section. Short, striking, and one of the more approachable pieces in an otherwise advanced set.
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Reiterlied — Clara Faisst
This piece is in F major, sits at level 6 of 9, and takes about 3 minutes to play.
One of two Kriegslieder set to texts by Gerhart Hauptmann, the 1912 Nobel laureate in literature; both songs appeared in 1914 in Eugen Diederichs' Jena Kriegsflugblatt series (Nr. 15/16), a dated wartime publication.
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Unsern Getreuen — Clara Faisst
This piece is in Ab major, sits at level 7 of 9, and takes about one minute to play.
Reiterlied's companion in the same 1914 Kriegsflugblatt pair — denser and harder than its partner, and tied for the highest difficulty grade in the set.
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Niederländisches Wiegenlied — Clara Faisst
This piece is in D major, sits at level 5 of 9, and takes about one minute to play.
Op. 1 No. 2, and the piece that quietly made this batch a complete set: it went live earlier from a previous run, so the 29 pieces released together this time were really the last 29 of 30, not all of them.
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The rest of the set
The other 24 pieces round out the nine sets: from Op. 1, Altdeutsches Lied and Viel tausend Blümlein auf der Au; from Op. 3, In der Mondnacht; from Op. 4, Liebeslied, Auf den grünen Auen, Ich ging im Walde den alten Steig, and Lied; from Op. 6, Ich glaub’, lieber Schatz, Hast nicht ein einzig Mal zurückgeschaut, Requiescat, Jugend, and Das sind die schönsten Lieder; from Op. 8, Das mitleidige Mädel; from Op. 11, Wanderlied, Riport a me (Piemontesisches Lied), Die innere Stadt, and Dulde, gedulde dich fein; from Op. 18, Du liebe Erde, Lied der Nacht, Sehnsucht, and Neue Liebe; and from Op. 19, Stimme eines seligen Geistes and Das Brünnlein, plus Ingeborgs-Lied aus dem fliegenden Holländer. Difficulty across all 30 pieces runs from 4/9 up to 7/9 — three pieces at 4, eight at 5, ten at 6, and nine at 7 — with nothing easier or harder than that range. That makes this an advanced set overall: a reasonable next stop for an upper-intermediate or advanced pianist rather than a starting point for a beginner.
Explore it
All 30 pieces are on Clara Faisst's composer page, or browse the full library by composer, difficulty, or era. Connect a digital piano for live note feedback. Turn on Wait mode when you want the cursor to advance after you play the written notes. See the docs for setup. No account is needed.
A note on the numbers. Every count in this post is checkable against the live catalog: keys, difficulty grades, and duration estimates come from each piece's own metadata record. Duration figures are estimates derived from the score, not measured performances. “Complete” means every playable engraving in our source corpus is live — not every piece Faisst ever wrote.