Aufträge Op. 77 No.5 (1850)

Zigeunerliedchen Op.79 No.7 (1849)

Die Kartenlegerin Op.31 No.2 (1840)

While the remaining Schumann items might not be among the most profound of his Lieder, they are certainly among the most entertaining. The delightful if pianistically demanding Aufträge and the vividly contrasting pair of miniatures, Zigeunerliedchen, from the Lieder-Album für die Jugend are all strophic in construction and correspondingly unambitious in psychological terms. Die Kartenlegerin, on the other hand, is a finely detailed character study poised to fly off in any direction as the cards predict a variety of situations but held together by the little piano flourish with which it opens and which recurs three times, the last only after some nervous hesitation.