Album pour la jeunesse - 12.Le Père Fouettard
by Robert Schumann (1810–1856) · Romantic · Advanced
Versions
| Version | Level | Key | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| Advanced · Level 4 | 4 of 5 | A minor | 1:47 |
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- Era
- Romantic (1830–1910)
- Mood
- Dramatic · fast, in a minor key
- Versions
- 1
About this piece
Written by Robert Schumann (1810–1856), Album pour la jeunesse - 12.Le Père Fouettard is quick and stormy, in a minor key, in the Romantic style. There is one arrangement: Advanced (level 4 of 5), 1:47 long, in A minor. In the app's library you'll also find it in the For young players collection.
About Robert Schumann (1810–1856): German Romantic composer and critic. His Album for the Young, Op. 68, written for his daughters, and the Scenes from Childhood (Kinderszenen) are classic pieces for developing pianists.
How to play Album pour la jeunesse - 12.Le Père Fouettard on piano
- Expect weeks, not days. Learn it section by section and keep a list of the hardest passages to practise first in every session.
- Slow practice is the fastest way forward: loop the difficult bars at 50% until they are clean, then 75%, then full speed.
- Decide on fingering early for fast passages and write it down; changing fingering later costs more time than it saves.
- It's a fast piece. Resist playing it at full tempo until it's accurate at a slower one; speed built on wrong notes doesn't last.
- Read the title as a hint: these little pieces each paint a picture, so let the mood guide your touch and tempo.
- Short daily sessions beat one long weekly one. Ten focused minutes a day is enough to make steady progress.
In the PianoKite app you can learn it with your own digital piano over Bluetooth or USB, or with any piano through the microphone: the score scrolls past a playhead, the keys light up, and every bar gets a score so you can see what's learned. See how it works. New to the piano? Start with the beginner lessons. Get early access.
License and credits
Typeset by Philippe Hézaine for the Mutopia Project. License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5. Source: Mutopia Project.
The source file may be shared and adapted, also commercially, with credit to the typesetter and adaptations under the same license; the preview on this page is an excerpt of it, under that license.
Text events such as lyrics were removed; the notes are as published. The player on this page plays the first 20 seconds.
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