Franz Schubert – Impromptus And Moments Musicaux Book

Franz Schubert – Impromptus And Moments Musicaux Book

An authoritative Urtext Edition of Schubert’s Impromptus and Moments Musicaux. Edited and fingered by a pianist who is still greatly admired, Walter Gieseking. Franz Schubert’s piano works belong to pianists’ core repertoire.

This volume contains the piano works that are played the most: the two collections of four Impromptus (D 899 and D 935) as well as the six Moments Musicaux (D 780). Our edition was first printed in the year that the publishing house was founded, in 1948. 105 pages.

Titles Include:

• Impromptu c minor op. 90,1 D 899
• Impromptu E flat major op. 90,2 D 899
• Impromptu G flat major op. 90,3 D 899
• Impromptu A flat major op. 90,4 D 899
• Moment musical C major op. 94,1 D 780
• Moment musical A flat major op. 94,2 D 780
• Moment musical f minor op. 94,3 D 780
• Moment musical c sharp minor op. 94,4 D 780
• Moment musical f minor op. 94,5 D 780
• Moment musical A flat major op. 94,6 D 780
• Impromptu f minor op. post. 142,1 D 935
• Impromptu A flat major op. post. 142,2 D 935
• Impromptu B flat major op. post. 142,3 D 935
• Impromptu f minor op. post. 142,4 D 935

AMEB:

Piano / Certificate of Performance / List C

• Impromptu in Gb major No. 3 from 4 Impromptus D 899

Piano / Grade 7 / List C

• Moment musical in F minor No. 3 from Moments musicaux Op. 94/D 780

Piano / Grade 8 / List C

• Momen musical in Ab major No. 2 from Moments Musicaux Op. 94/D780
• Momen musical in C sharp minor No. 4 from Moments Musicaux Op. 94/D780

Piano for Leisure / Certificate of Performance / Open Manual list

• Impromptu in Eb major D 899/Op 90 No 2

Piano for Leisure / Grade 8 / Open Manual list

• Impromptu in Ab major No 2 from 4 Impromptus Op. 142/D 935
• Impromptu in Ab major No 4 from 4 Impromptus Op. 90/D 899

Franz Schubert

He is not only the inaugurator of the art song and its most important composer in the nineteenth century, but he also realised a compositional concept in his instrumental works that opposed Viennese Classicism. Underlying the heavenly length of his works is a configuration of time that does not function according to the principle of motivic development, but addresses the notion of lingering; modifications occur mostly not in continuous unfolding, but through sudden eruptions.

His ornate songs contradict the ideal of simplicity in the Lied aesthetics of his time, and provide the basis for the art song of the nineteenth century, regarded as they were as exemplary by subsequent generations of composers; they are defined by complex harmonies, an integration of the idioms of instrumental music, semantic models, and a new relationship between text and music in which the poem as a whole is interpreted through the composition, rather than just through word painting.

His immense oeuvre in spite of his brief life comprises 600 songs, including his two famous song cycles; seven complete and several unfinished symphonies (including the Unfinished in B minor); other orchestral works; numerous pieces of chamber music; fourteen complete and several unfinished piano sonatas as well as other piano pieces; dances for piano and four-hand works; six masses and other sacred compositions; numerous pieces for choir or vocal ensemble, especially for male voices. Although he also contributed to every genre of music theatre and his friends predicted a career for him in opera, only two of his ten finished operas were performed during his lifetime, as was the incidental music to Rosamunde.