One day he said to them: This is the way the farmer walks when he comes home singing from his work.
THE HAPPY FARMER. [Listen]
Some day you will be able to play a lot of pieces by Schumann that picture the pleasantest things so clearly that you can see them very plainly indeed. In one of his books there is a music picture of a boy riding a rocking horse.
Another of a little girl falling asleep.
A March for Little Soldiers. (That is, make-believes.)
And then there are Sitting by the Fireside, What they Sing in Church, and a piece the first four notes of which spell the name of a composer who was a good friend of Schumann's.
This composer came from Denmark.
NIELS GADE.