Träumerei (Dreaming) · piano sheet music & MIDI file
Schumann's Träumerei as a free MIDI: a piano preview to hear right here, a file to download, sheet music PDF included.
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.
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: 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 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.