Score

Wild RiderOp. 68 No. 8

Difficulty 5
A minor
1 min
27 measures

The eighth of the 43 pieces in Schumann's Album for the Young, Op. 68, written in 1848 for his children. In 6/8, a staccato A minor tune gallops in the right hand over short left-hand chords, with sudden sf accents; in the middle section the tune passes to the left hand in F major under the right hand's chords, before the opening returns. This edition follows Clara Schumann's 1887 collected edition.

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