Schubert: Impromptus, Moments musicaux & Wanderer Fantasy
2/16/2024, 18 Tracks, 2:20:42
Featuring
Nikolai Demidenko
Franz Schubert
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Cultural Impact
The 'Wanderer' Fantasy greatly influenced later composers, inspiring Liszt's great Sonata in B minor and influencing the early works of Schoenberg.
Critical Reception
Schumann noted in his diary that Schubert, in the 'Wanderer' Fantasy, 'wanted to combine an entire orchestra in two hands,' praising its inspired beginning as a 'seraphic hymn'.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Schubert was fascinated by the challenge of welding the various movements of a traditional symphonic form into a continuous, unified whole.
Compositional Technique
The 'Wanderer' Fantasy derives all its material, including a song fragment in its slow section, from the dactylic repeated-note rhythm of its opening bar.
Composer Biography
Schubert first experienced serious symptoms of syphilis in autumn 1822, around the time he wrote the 'Wanderer' Fantasy, and was too weak to leave his house by the following spring.
Compositional Technique
The 'Wanderer' Fantasy features an unusual juxtaposition of keys a semitone apart, retaining the song's key of C sharp minor in its second section, a boldness that surpassed Mozart and even Beethoven.
Composition History
The 'Wanderer' Fantasy was influenced by Beethoven's continuous, cyclic works, such as his Piano Sonatas 'Quasi una fantasia' and the C major Cello Sonata.
