Schumann Kinderszenen Op 15 No’s 7-13 Dohnanyi Rec 1953

It takes a lot more than a showy technique to give a performance of Schumann’s Traumerei such as the one played by Dohnanyi here. Erno Dohnanyi was born in what was then Hungary,in 1877. He was a pupil of Istvan Thoman and Eugen d’Albert,both of whom had studied with the age of 18,he composed his Piano Quintet of which Brahms commented,“I couldn’t have done better myself.“ It was Brahms who arranged for its first performance in Vienna in 1895. Not long thereafter (around 1900), Dohnanyi became