Fantaisie pour le piano-forte à quatre mains...dedié à ... la Comtesse Caroline Esterházy de Galantha. Oeuvre 103. [D 940]

Vienne: Ant. Diabelli. [1829]. First edition. Oblong folio. Title; 2- 27 pp. Engraved. [PN] D. et. C. no. 3158. Scattered foxing, mostly to the early and final pages, otherwise fine. Deutsch p. 602; Hirsch IV, 583; Kat. Hoboken 13 Nr. 409.


One of the composer's most heavenly works, Schubert composed the F Minor Fantasy between January and April 1828, a few months before his death. Dedicated to his pupil, Karoline Esterházy, the composer played the piece himself with his good friend Franz Lachner on May 9, 1828. Before Schubert, 'Fantasie' usually implied improvisatory material and structural freedom, but the F minor Fantasie is a tightly constructed work in which four movements are fused into one, to be played without pause. (9810)

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