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.
Schumann didn't write the Scenes from Childhood for children. He called them an adult's memories, reflections looking backward. Träumerei, the seventh, became one of the most played pages of the Romantic repertoire and one of its most requested MIDI files: four phrases that rise, fall and start over like a thought you can't put down.
Few notes, zero fast runs, and yet concert pianists have kept it as an encore for a century. Everything lives in how you steer the phrase: knowing where it peaks, delaying the top by a hair, coming down without letting the sound die. A beginner can read through it in a week. Making it sing takes years, and that's the fun of it.
Träumerei: the first notes
Right hand, in letter names (C4 = middle C): C4 F4 C4 E4 F4 A4 C5 F5 F5 E5 D5 C5 F5 G4 A4 A#4 D5 F4 G4 A4 C5 G4 C4 F4… The rest scrolls in the preview above, with the fingering, and the sheet music PDF has the whole piece.
Play Träumerei on the virtual piano
Here are the Träumerei virtual piano notes, 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. The melody sounds an octave lower than written, so it fits on the keyboard.
Letters for a QWERTY keyboardYour keyboard: 42 notes
ZVCVNQRREW
QRBNJWVBNQBZ
VCVNQYYTRE
RYWRE;WECZ
▶ 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
Steering an eight-bar phrase to its single peak
The inner voices (there are almost always four)
A singing legato learned without pedal first
Dynamics between p and mf, everything inward
Playing Träumerei on piano with Pianovera
Show both hand colors in Pianovera and hunt the four voices: you'll find the melody landing on the left thumb more than once. Wait mode lets you place every chord calmly, since this piece never pushes you.
Open Träumerei (Dreaming) 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 Träumerei MIDI and sheet music
Two files are waiting for you: the Träumerei piano MIDI file (4 KB, opens in Pianovera or any MIDI player) and the Träumerei piano sheet music PDF (61 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 Träumerei hard to play on piano?
We rate it beginner: 339 notes over 1:51, spanning A#1 to A#5. The first thing to work on: steering an eight-bar phrase to its single peak.
Where can I get the sheet music for Träumerei?
Right on this page: the "View the sheet music" button opens the PDF (61 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 Träumerei 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.
