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The Poor Orphan-Child

by Robert Schumann

An early-intermediate piece from the Romantic period, in A minor, and about 1 minute and 8 seconds to play.

About this edition

The sixth piece of the Album fur die Jugend, a plaintive minor-key miniature ("Armes Waisenkind") depicting a grieving orphan -- one of the collection's more emotionally direct early pieces.

Practice the 16th-note turns slowly and evenly before applying the "Langsam" tempo marking's expressive rubato -- precision first, feeling second.

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