Schubert Four Hands

Fantasia for piano, 4 hands in F minor, D. 940 (Op. 103), written in 1828.

- V. Final (Tempo primo) Schubert wrote more popular works for piano, four hands and longer works for piano, four hands. The Fantasia in F minor by Franz Schubert, D.940 (Op.

posth. 103), for piano four hands (two players at one piano), is one of Schubert's most important works for more than one pianist and one of his most important piano works altogether. He composed it in 1828, the last year of his life.

A dedication to his former pupil Caroline Esterházy can only be found in the posthumous first edition, not. Original Compositionen für Piano zu 4 Händen (Schubert, Franz) Performances Recordings (0). Franz Schubert (1797-1828) wrote over forty works for piano four hands throughout his short life, including his earliest known work.

Even though Schubert was not the first composer to write music for piano four-hand, his extensive collection of music for piano four hands spans a wide range of styles from fantasies and sonatas to concert marches and rondos. Fantasy in F minor, D. 940, is.

Schubert wrote two other sonatas and one sonatina for piano four hands, but none of them are as extensive as this work. Schumann described the piece as a "symphony arranged for the piano." Schubert also wrote four variation works and two sets of Divertissements for piano four hands, inspired by French and Hungarian motifs respectively. Franz Peter SCHUBERT (1797-1828) Complete Works for Piano Four Hands Jan Vermeulen & Veerle Peeters (fortepiano Tröndlin, Leipzig 1825-1830) rec.

2014-19, Willebringen, Belgium ETCETERA KTC1511 [7 CDs: 525:59] I already had the recordings of Schubert's complete piano music for four hands, so I might have thought that another would one more too many, but both my other versions are performed. SCHUBERT FOUR HAND PIANO MUSIC Fantasias, Rondos, Variations and Marches There is a prodigeous quantity of Schubert four hand piano music. The best known are the 3 Marches Militaires (in D major, G major and E-flat major, Op 51, D 733), the Sonata in C major ("Grand Duo", Op.

posth. 140, D 812), and, perhaps the most famuous of all, the Fantasy in F minor (Op. 103, D 940).

It is with this last. Schubert was fond of writing four-hand music to be played by two pianists sitting on the same piano bench. His thirty-four compositions in this medium range from the earliest extant composition in his hand (a Fantasy penned in 1810) to his Rondo in A Major finished in the summer of 1828.

No composer ever approached the piano duet with the seriousness Schubert did, and his corpus of four. he Fantasia in F minor by Franz Schubert, D. 940 (Op.

posth. 103), for piano four hands (two players at one piano), is one of Schubert's most important works for more than one pianist and one of his most important piano works altogether. Pianists Richard Egarr and Alexandra Nepomnyashchaya make their recording debut with a program of works for piano four-hands by Schubert.

Aside from being very enjoyable this repertoire features some of Schubert's finest piano writing. It is worth noting that Schubert's great F minor Fantasie, although justly famous, represents only a small proportion of his music for piano four.