🇩🇪Robert Schumann ： Sieben Klavierstucke in Fughettenform a-moll Op.126-7

The seventh piece concludes Schumann’s Seven Piano Pieces in Fughetta Form. It condenses the technique of fugue into a small-scale form, allowing the music to unfold as the voices pass the subject from one to another. Despite its concise writing, the piece conveys changes in density created by the overlapping voices, along with a sense of tension that sustains the musical flow. In performance, it is important to distinguish the movement of each voice, bring out the entrances of the subject clearly, and keep the accompanying lines suitably restrained. Avoiding haste in the smaller notes while attending to the direction of the phrases and harmonic changes will highlight the refined contrapuntal sonority and natural forward momentum.