The Kinderszenen, composed in the spring of 1838, are among the most well-known and popular works of piano literature. Above all, No. 7, the Reverie, began an unprecedented triumphal march through the music world from the second half of the 19th century. The present, carefully revised edition takes into account for the first time manuscript improvements and changed tempo indications of Schumann's hand in one of the two surviving copies of the first edition of 1839, which came into the possession of the Robert Schumann House in Zwickau in 1994. This edition differs from the ''instructive edition'' by Clara Schumann, among others, by the metronome information, why the pieces in terms of their tempo and their phrasing of the previously familiar sound differ significantly.