Almost Too SeriousScenes from Childhood · Op. 15 · X

The tenth of the thirteen pieces in Schumann's Kinderszenen, Op. 15, composed in 1838 and published in 1839. A hesitant melody in G-sharp minor, in 2/8, enters just after the beat and is tied over the bar line in nearly every bar, above sixteenth-note broken chords; fermatas and repeated ritardandos keep halting it, and it ends over a low G-sharp. This edition follows the Breitkopf & Härtel first edition.