Album pour la jeunesse - 18.Chant des moissonneurs
in C major · Op. 68, No. 18
Robert Schumann 1810–1856
C major
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Op. 68, No. 18
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Themes & character
Reaper's Song·Harvest imagery·Swinging rhythm·Composed 1848
At a glance
- Catalogue
- Op. 68, No. 18
- Key
- C major
About the piece
Reaper's Song, eighteenth in the Album for the Young, a cheerful harvest scene set in a swinging compound rhythm suggesting the repetitive motion of scythes in a field.
Rural work songs run throughout the collection, part of the world of nineteenth century German childhood that Schumann was drawing on, alongside soldiers, hunters and festival figures.
The composer
Robert Schumann
1810–1856
Robert Schumann was a German composer, pianist, and music critic of the early Romantic era. He composed in all the main musical genres of the time, writing for solo piano, voice and piano, chamber groups, orchestra, choir and the opera. His works typify the spirit of the Romantic era in German music.
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