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To a Wild RoseOp. 51 No. 1

Edward MacDowell

  • Difficulty 3
  • A major
  • 1 min
  • 51 measures

The opening piece of Edward MacDowell's Woodland Sketches, Op. 51, published in 1896. Simple and tender, this short piece carries a quiet right-hand melody over held chords in the left hand. MacDowell had thrown the piece away and, at his wife's suggestion, recovered it and gave it its title.

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