Mendelssohn | Six Children’s Pieces, Op. 72 (Piano)

Felix Mendelssohn's Six Children’s Pieces, Op. 72 is a lovely set of piano pieces composed while staying with his wife's relatives in England during the summer of 1842 (the same visit during which the Scottish Symphony was first heard in England). It was first published shortly after the composer died in 1847. The pieces are each two or three three pages long. They are not programmatic, and they bear no descriptive titles, but they are at heart character pieces in something of the same vein as his famous Seven Character Pieces, Op. 7, of 1827.

Contents:

• No. 1 in G Major
• No. 2 in Eb Major
• No. 3 in G Major
• No. 4 in D Major
• No. 5 in G minor
• No. 6 in F Major