Schubert, Franz. (1797–1828) [Schumann, Clara. (1819–1896)]
Grand Duo pour le Pianoforte à quatre mains...Op. 140 [D 812]
Vienna: A. Diabelli et Comp... Paris: S. Richault. 1837. First. Grand Duo pour le Pianoforte à quatre mains composé... Op. 140. Dédié à Mademoiselle Clara Wieck par les Editeurs... No. 6269. Pr. f4._ C.M. Upright folio. Engraved throughout. [PN] 6269. [i] (title with dedicatee's name within decorative device, 2-63, [i] pp. Modern half calf with gilt stamped leather front cover label. An exceptionally clean and attractive example, one leaf with tear to lower right edge just slightly entering the plate, otherwise in fine condition throughout. Deutsch pp. 509-10. Hoboken 14, 507 and plate 2. Hirsch IV, 619.A fine copy of the Sonata in C Major, dedicated by the publisher to the celebrated pianist Clara Wieck three years prior to her marriage to Robert Schumann. The Sonata in C major for piano four-hands, D 812 was composed in June of 1824 while Schubert was instructing the daughters of Count János Károly Esterházy de Galántha in music, but it was not published until 1837, nine years after the composer's death. Schubert titled this work "Sonate" in the autograph manuscript, but the title "Grand Duo"
continues to be used alongside the original. Though published by Diabelli as a Grand Duo, "[in] terms of form and content, it belongs closely to the group of solo sonatas; it is filled with Schubert's narrative instrumental poetry." Robert Schumann saw Beethoven's influence in the work, and even speculated that the work may have been a piano reduction of an unknown symphony. A symphonic version by Joseph Joachim (1831–1907) was popular throughout the 19th and first half of the 20th century. (18867)
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