Category Archives: motor exercises

intermezzo.

I’m working on Schumann’s Intermezzo (No. 4 from Faschingsschwank aus Wien, Op. 26), written in 1839 when he intended to settle with his future wife Clara, whom he married the year after. A poetic piano piece, in the only recording I’ve listened to so far it is played extremely fast, with whirlwind-like arpeggios providing background […]