Musical Analysis And Interpretation Of Schumann’s Intermezzo Op.4

Robert Schumann,born in 1810,Germany,was a composer and music critic who helped develop music.His piano works have a love of literature,innate poetic temperament,rich imagination,contradictory dual character,which makes Schumann’s piano works style Nothing in Common.Based on the analysis of the creative background and emotional connotation of Intermezzo op.4,this paper probes into the emotional connotation and musical thoughts of Intermezzo by combining with the author’s own performance experience.The text is divided into three chapters.The first chapter introduces Schumann’s life,summarizes the literary elements,word play,dual personality and metaphor in Schumann’s piano works,the second chapter analyzes the genre and development of intermezzo,the creative background of Intermezzo op.4,literary factors,dual character and the form analysis of Intermezzo op.4,the third part explains how to play Intermezzo op.4.Firstly,it analyses the technical skills contained in Intermezzo op.4 from the aspects of stress,rhythm,voice,octave and major chord,then it analyzes the construction of mood and atmosphere in Intermezzo op.4 from the angle of the expression of emotion in performance,and finally explores how to achieve the empathy in performance from the aspects of enthusiasm and reason,imagination,breathing and singing.