Scenes from Childhood No. 1 · piano sheet music & MIDI file
Schumann's first Scene from Childhood as a free MIDI: its daydream opens in the preview, piano file and sheet music PDF to take along.
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.
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 Scenes from Childhood No. 1 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: notes fall toward the keyboard, each hand gets its color, and Wait mode is there if you're starting out.
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Two files are waiting for you: the Scenes from Childhood No. 1 piano MIDI file (2 KB, opens in Pianovera or any MIDI player) and the Scenes from Childhood No. 1 piano sheet music PDF (41 KB, printable). Both come from the same engraving: what you read on the score is exactly what you hear in the preview.
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 Scenes from Childhood No. 1 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 Scenes from Childhood No. 1?
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 Scenes from Childhood No. 1 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.