This piece is an arrangement of the Solder's Song
composed by Robert Schumann for voice and piano in
1844, WoO 7. Schumann set the poem Soldatenlied of
Hoffmann von Fallerleben to music, which begins with
"Ein scheckiges Pferd".
The piano method by Max Bisping is one of the most
important piano schools of the 19th century (1860). His
pupil Alfred Rose edited later versions since 1900.
Here the piece is no. 209 in booklet 2.