Recently I checked all the recordings of "Traumerei" on You-Tube. Unfortunately, the nowadays' musicians prefer to copy the so-called "interpretation" of any celebrity, rather than to look at the score. To avoid misrepresentation of "Traumerei", Schumann specially indicated the EXACT TEMPO of performing: "Quarter note = 100 bpm ". He described these songs as "more CHEERFUL, gentler, more melodic" than his earlier works. The "Traumerei" ("Daydreaming") - is just one of these "Easy and Amusing Pieces." Schumann probably meant precisely this feature of his own character. In response to these jokes of his famous wife, Schumann wrote "30 easy and amusing (droll) pieces for piano", from which he selected later 13 pieces and titled this compilation "Children's scenes" ("The Kinderszenen"). And there's nothing wrong with: many good people remain to be children until their last days - it had been noticed for long.
Those who have read the literary works of Schumann, will most likely agree with her. Often she joked over Schumann that he seemed and behaved like a child. Schumann's wife Clara Wieck was a wonderful pianist, judging from the feedback from many of her great contemporaries.
But this is not something that is written for us by the composer at all. It is only performed by everyone at a pace of a funeral march, it is often included in the funeral ceremony, and it even sounds round-the-clock over the memorial of one-and- a- half million soldiers that died in the Second World War's "Stalingrad Battle". The only recording in the world of Schumann's "Traumerei" at the correct, AUTHENTIC "Tempo = 100", indicated by Schumann instead of the usual "tempo for funeral".Ĭan we imagine that instead of light-hearted, joyful "Jingle Bells" everyone in the world played this song as a gloomy music for the funeral at the speed of a snail? This is exactly what is happening today with lovely Schumann's "Traumerei".
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