Romantic Composer Schumann And His "Kinderszenen"

The 19th Century is the century of the Romanticism, and for music arts, the Romanticism is the mainstream of this century. Early in this century, the Romanticism was to be more and more popular through literature, and then made faster development in the music. By the first half of the 19th century, a large number of talented composers appeared in succession, including an inherent enthusiasm and the most romantic temperament composer, and his music is being hailed as "poetry music, music of the poem", and this composer is Schumann.Schumann preferred the title music, his music style had been affected seriously by literature, has the typical Romantic characteristics. He paid great attention to internal figures and the description of the emotional, and good at revealing human spiritual world, and also good at the psychological portrait of contradictions. His creative style is very extensive, and the piano music is the main content. His "Kinderszenen" is a masterpiece of Romantic piano music.Schumann was the first master on the music comments, he has a sharp artistic vision and profound insight. At that time, he often published insightful articles in the music publications which founded by his own, and did a sharp satire and criticism to vulgar and corrupt phenomenon in German music arts, and also keen insight discovered the music talent, and do publicity for the excellent music works.Schumann was good at linking many small pieces which description sceneries or figures or feelings into a set, they were not only independence, are intrinsically linked. The piano set "Kinderszenen" Op.15 is such a work, it created in 1838, is designed to cause his wife Clara happy childhood memories. The piano set from 13 paragraph of this music composition, from many aspects of the childhood memories, description of the children together with game scenarios; With a pair of naive childish, playful psychological depicted; Heard a story from adults, and described a scene of the singular imagination. The last paragraph is the summary, the era of the past performance of children, it leaves happy memories like a poet.This paper analysis the music mainly through the study of the literature. Main thesis is divided into four chapters. Chapter I discusses on the romanticism of the 19th century, Schumann and his music creation and thought. Chapter II describes the artistic characteristics of the "Kinderszenen". Chapter III showed the musical structure of the "Kinderszenen" of the form. Chapter IV respectively described the playing tips on the 13 pieces of "Kinderszenen".