What is the name of the piano piece Seven of Nine plays?

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What is the name of the piano piece that Seven of Nine plays for the holographic Commander Chakotay in Season 7, Episode 18 (Human Error) of Star Trek: Voyager?

She plays it for him in a scene where Chakotay asks her to play without the metronome.

It is not the same piece she plays in the opening scene. In that scene she plays with a metronome and Chakotay is not present. (As already correctly pointed out, that piece is Chopin's Nocturne Op.72 No.1 in E minor.)

quant · Accepted Answer

The piece played by Seven of Nine in that episode, at Chakotay's request and where he asks her to play without the metronome, is Robert Schumann's "Von fremden Ländern und Menschen" (variously translated as Of foreign lands and people or Of foreign countries and people) from Scenes Of Childhood (Opus 15, No. 1). That is according to this link and it certainly sounds the same.
It's a beautiful piece!

Einer · Answer

According to this that would be Chopin's Nocturne Op.72 No.1 in E minor.

It was the first nocturne he composed (1827) but it was not published until 1855. With "only" 57 bars it is rather short, since it's played in Andante (~70 bpm)

It was not only used in that episode but also in the movie "Tombstone" and as the main theme in "The Secret Garden".

What is the name of the piano piece Seven of Nine plays?

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