_Slumber Song_ is a setting of some of the composer's own lines,
"Dearest, sleep sound." The song presents a fairly good mating of
words and music, and its expression is a lovable one, inimitably
MacDowell-like in effect.



OPUS 10. FIRST MODERN SUITE, FOR PIANOFORTE.

_Composed, Frankfort, 1880. First Played, July 11th, 1882, by the
composer, at the Ninth Annual Convention of the General Society
of German Musicians, held at Zurich.

First Published, 1883_ (Breitkopf & Härtel).

_Dedicated to Mrs. Joachim Raff_.

1. _Præludium_.

2. _Presto_.

3. _Andantino and Allegretto_.

4. _Intermezzo_.

5. _Rhapsody_.

6. _Fugue_.