Green notes: right hand, blue notes: left hand. Preview played right in your browser with the app's real piano (lightweight version). Inside Pianovera: full multi-layer sound, fingering display and Wait mode.
"Of Foreign Lands and Peoples": this is the doorway into the Scenes from Childhood, the collection that holds Träumerei. A questioning melody, a triplet accompaniment that rocks it, and that Schumann blend of simplicity and nostalgia where you never quite know if the MIDI is smiling or remembering.
Only twenty-two bars, but a real little laboratory: the melody has to float above the triplets without crushing them, and the two-against-three rhythm gets learned here gently, at a tempo where everything stays comfortable. The ideal step before Träumerei, which we'd recommend right after.
The first of the Scenes from Childhood: the first notes
Right hand, in letter names (C4 = middle C): B4 G4 G5 G4 F#5 F#4 E5 D5 A4 B4 G4 G5 G4 F#5 F#4 E5 D5 A4 B4 G4 G5 G4 E5 G4… The rest scrolls in the preview above, with the fingering, and the sheet music PDF has the whole piece.
Play the first of the Scenes from Childhood on the virtual piano
Here are the virtual piano notes for the first of the Scenes from Childhood, in computer keyboard letters: the first 8 bars of the melody. One key per note, read left to right; dark keys are the sharps, and a thin line marks each bar.
Letters for a QWERTY keyboardYour keyboard: 18 notes
U]=POU]=PO
U]POIYOU
▶ Play on the virtual pianoThe piano opens with this piece loaded: the key to play lights up and waits for you.
What you'll be working on
Two-against-three in its gentlest form
A melody floating above the triplets
The wide, supple left-hand intervals
The tone: a question asked, never answered
Playing the first of the Scenes from Childhood on piano with Pianovera
This is the perfect piece for taming 2 against 3 in Pianovera: at 60% in Scroll mode you literally watch the blue triplets slide under the green eighths. Then move straight to Träumerei, already in the library.
Open Scenes from Childhood No. 1 in Pianovera: the notes fall toward an 88-key virtual piano keyboard, each hand gets its color, and Wait mode is there if you're starting out. On a PC, it's falling notes piano software for Windows, with video export up to 4K.
Free, with no time limit and no ads: 30 pieces (10 in full, 20 in a simplified version), the first 10 lessons and 10 minutes of 3D hands (then 15 seconds per piece). Premium opens all 651 pieces.
Download the first of the Scenes from Childhood MIDI and sheet music
The work itself is in the public domain, and this MIDI engraving was placed in the public domain by its typesetter on the Mutopia Project. Use it freely, videos included.
About this piece
Is the first of the Scenes from Childhood hard to play on piano?
We rate it beginner: 222 notes over 0:37, spanning F#2 to G5. The first thing to work on: two-against-three in its gentlest form.
Where can I get the sheet music for the first of the Scenes from Childhood?
Right on this page: the "View the sheet music" button opens the PDF (41 KB), engraved by the Mutopia Project from the same source as the MIDI file, Public domain license. View it, print it, keep it.
Is the first of the Scenes from Childhood MIDI file really free?
Yes. Robert Schumann died more than 70 years ago, so the work (1838) is public domain. This MIDI engraving is public domain too: download it and use it freely, videos included.
