Easy Piano - Level 2 - Digital Download

SKU: A0.596592

Composed by Juan María Solare. 20th Century,Contemporary,Sacred,Standards. Score. 8 pages. Juan Maria Solare #5799759. Published by Juan Maria Solare (A0.596592).

About the music

Both pieces of this diptych are miniatures with a structure quite similar to each of the pieces of the Album für die Jugend Opus 68 by Robert Schumann. The melodies are strongly rooted in Japanese music (particularly obvious in the second piece).

Aesthetically, this is neoclassical music (a quite broad concept nowadays). Fans of Erik Satie, Ludovico Einaudi or Joep Beving will possibly feel at home.

Both pieces were composed on 6 June 2020 (the first one with my daughter Laura sleeping on my breast). Find this music soon on Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube or any other streaming platform (either under my name or performed by other pianists, possibly Iannis Eralos). Total duration: ca. 5:15.

https://open.spotify.com/album/27MbJnfPjcolbQZAmNs8tK

Weep Because Its Over: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWflYuEoLy8

Smile Because It Happened: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SQFUlb7lFg

About the titles

In a poem by the German Romantic poet Ludwig Jacobowski titled Leuchtende Tage (Radiant Days) and published in August 1899, he writes:

Nicht weinen, weil sie vorüber!

Lächeln, weil sie gewesen!

Literally:

Don't cry because they are over (they: the radiant days)

Smile because they happened.

Usually it is quoted this way:

Don't cry because it’s over

Smile because it happened.

 

For my piece, I adapted this idea und -not quite humbly- think that is better now:

 

Do weep because it’s over

But also smile because it happened

 

Why is it better now? Because… where is the issue with weeping? The first step is to accept that pain exists. Nobody has the moral authority to deny you the possibility of crying. Weeping is not a shame or a disgrace. Besides, only he who weeps is credible when he laughs.

 

By the way, these words are sometimes attributed to Confucius. I leave to you the task of determining whether Jacobowski borrowed this thought from him.