Franz Schubert: Fantasy in C The Wanderer: Piano: Instrumental Work

The Fantasie in C major Op. 15 popularly known as the Wanderer Fantasy is a four-movement fantasy for solo Piano composed by Franz Schubert?in 1822. The whole work is based on one single basic motive from the lied ?The Wanderer? and the four movements are played without a break.?It is widely considered to be?Schubert's most technically demanding composition for the Piano. Schubert?himself said 'the devil may play it ' in reference to his own inability to do so properly. It is the perfect challenge for any proficient pianist and the effort will be appreciated byaudiences upon hearing this marvellous piece!Franz Schubert?was an Austrian composer who was extremely prolific during his short?lifetime(he died at the age of 31). His output consists of over six hundred secular vocal works seven complete symphonies sacred music operas incidental music and a large body of chamber and Piano music. Today?Schubert?is ranked among the greatest composers of the late Classical era and early Romantic era and is one of the most frequently performed composers of the early nineteenth century.

New Liszt Edition III Vol. 1. Par LISZT FRANZ. Composed in 1834, Liszt's Grand duo is based on material from three pieces from the first book (op. 19b) of Mendelssohn's Songs without Words (no. 1 in E major, no. 6 in G minor, and no. 3 in A major). While Liszt made an almost literal transcription of the first piece, he gave the second and third pieces a much freer arrangement, in the style of concert paraphrases. The large-scale concert piece was premiered by Liszt and Chopin on Christmas Day 1834 in a salon in Paris. The Grand duo was not published in Liszt's lifetime, and has survived as a draft. Schubert's Fantasy in C major (also known as the 'Wanderer' Fantasy) was a defining musical experience for the young Liszt. He arranged this masterpiece of Romantic piano literature for piano and orchestra in 1851, at the beginning of his Weimar period, and it was premiered by Julius Egghard in Vienna in December of that year. By 1855, Liszt had transcribed this arrangement for two pianos, because it was played on 22 October 1855 at a concert held in Weimar in honour of his birthday. With the version for piano and orchestra, Liszt attuned the fantasy to the requirements of the concert hall, reinforcing the orchestral effects inherent in Schubert's composition. His aim with the two-piano version was to achieve a similarly grand effect in spaces too small for an orchestra. The arrangement for piano and orchestra appeared in print in 1857, followed by the two-piano version in 1862. This volume comes complete with a detailed preface in English, German, and Hungarian containing new research findings, several manuscript facsimiles, and a critical report in English. / Date parution : 2023-03-11/ Répertoire / 2 Pianos

for Piano-Early evidence of Schubert’s interest in music of the past can be found in his Fantasy in C minor of 1811 (D 2 E) with its echoes of Mozart’s fantasy in the same key. A recurring motivic snippet in the virtuosic Graz Fantasy in C major (D 605 A) probably composed between 1818 and 1821 already foreshadows the monumental Wanderer Fantasy of 1822 (op. 15 - D 760).Printed with spacious new engraving Franz Schubert's Fantasies For Piano unites the composer's great fantasies for solo Piano in a single volume and presents the early work Fantasy in C minor for the first time in ascholarly-critical Urtext edition.It offers advanced pupils students and professional pianists a richly varied musically and technically thrilling addition to their repertoire. The edition features notes on performance practice an informative preface practical page turns and an elegant engraving.The most famous of the fantasies the Wanderer Fantasy now appears in a separate edition (BA 10870).Based on the Urtext of the New Schubert Edition.First scholarly-critical performing edition of the Fantasy in C minor (D 2 E).Notes on performance practice (Ger/Eng).Includes an informative foreword (Ger/Eng) and a Critical Commentary (Eng).

All piano music except Sonatas, Dances, and a few unfinished pieces. Contains Wanderer, Impromptus, Moments Musicals, Variations, Scherzi, etc. Content : 1 Fantasy, Op. 15 (Wanderer) 2 Four Impromptus, Op. 90 3 Four Impromptus, Op. 142 4 Moments musicals, Op. 94 5 Adagio and Rondo, Op. 145 6 Ten Variations 7 Variations on a Theme by Anselm Hüttenbrenner 8 Variation on a Waltz by Antonio Diabelli 9 Andante in C Major 10 Piece for Pianoforte in A Major 11 Adagio in E Major 12 Allegretto in C Minor 13 Three Pieces for Pianoforte 14 Five Pieces for Pianoforte 15 Two Scherzi 16 March in E Major