Piano Music for Four Hands Vol. 2
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Title:
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Piano Music for Four Hands Vol. 2 |
Otros títulos:
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Música para Piano a Cuatro Manos Vol. 2 |
Intérprete/ Colaborador:
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Franz Schubert; Duo Tal & Groethuysen; Yaara Tal; Andreas Groethuysen |
Código CDU:
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Sch.15 |
Forma Musical:
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Piano music (4 hands) ; Variations (Piano, 4 hands) ; Suites (Piano, 4 hands) ; Polonaises. |
Abstract:
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The middle months of 1824 were the second of two summers spent by Franz Schubert teaching music to the daughters of the Count of Esterházy at his home in Zseliz. In neither of these two extended stays away from his beloved Vienna and the company of his dear friends was Schubert very happy, but, characteristically, he hardly allowed his discontentedness to keep him from his work. The bulk of music composed during the summer of 1824 is for piano two-hands (an ideal format if one is teaching); perhaps the most striking of these four-hand piano works is the Divertissement à la hongroise in G minor, D. 818, begun during the summer but not finished until after returning home to Vienna, that was eventually published—during Schubert's lifetime, for a change—as Op. 54.
The Divertissement à la hongroise, as its name would imply, has a distinct Hungarian flavor (as a school-trained Austrian composer might absorb it)—not at all surprising considering the folk and gypsy music that Schubert was ... |
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