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Santa Claus

by Robert Schumann

An upper-intermediate piece from the Romantic period, in A minor, and about 1 minute and 9 seconds to play.

About this edition

The twelfth piece of the Album fur die Jugend ("Knecht Ruprecht"/Santa Claus), a dramatic, minor-key depiction of the German St. Nicholas's-companion figure -- one of the more technically demanding numbers in the collection's first half.

Break the piece into its 16th-note passages and the more chordal sections separately -- at 72 measures and tempo 126 this is a multi-session piece, not a one-sitting read.

Scores and source editions retain their credited public-domain or licensed provenance.