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Schumann, Robert: Pictures from the East op. 66

for Piano Four-hands

sheet music

Op. 57
Setting: Piano Duet
Period: Romantic
Length: 40 pages
Weight: 0.18 kg
Published: 2015
Publisher: G. Henle Verlag
Item number: HN1263
Other reference: HN 1263
ISMN: 9790201812632
In 1849 Schumann published six Impromptus for piano four-hands with the title Bilder aus Osten. As can be seen from the preface of the first edition, Schumann was inspired by the Maqama - a genre of Arab rhymed prose - by themedieval poet Hariri in the translation by Friedrich Rückert. Schumann could not banish the protagonist in the Maqama, Abu Said, whom he likened to the German character Till Eulenspiegel from his thoughts whilst he was writing theworks. This explains the foreign character of
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