Robert Schumann Pictuers from the East, Op66. Urtext Edition - piano 4 hands; fingering: Groethuysen, Andreas; editor: Strucken-Paland, Christiane. In 1849 Schumann published six Impromptus for piano four-hands with the title “Bilder aus Osten”. As can be seen from the preface of the first edition, Schumann was inspired by the “Maqama” – a genre of Arab rhymed prose – by the medieval poet Hariri in the translation by Friedrich Rückert. Schumann could not banish the protagonist in the Maqama,

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